Jüttner Martin, Wakui Elley, Petters Dean, Davidoff Jules
Department of Psychology, School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University Birmingham, UK.
School of Psychology, University of East London London, UK.
Front Psychol. 2016 Mar 15;7:385. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00385. eCollection 2016.
In the visual perception literature, the recognition of faces has often been contrasted with that of non-face objects, in terms of differences with regard to the role of parts, part relations and holistic processing. However, recent evidence from developmental studies has begun to blur this sharp distinction. We review evidence for a protracted development of object recognition that is reminiscent of the well-documented slow maturation observed for faces. The prolonged development manifests itself in a retarded processing of metric part relations as opposed to that of individual parts and offers surprising parallels to developmental accounts of face recognition, even though the interpretation of the data is less clear with regard to holistic processing. We conclude that such results might indicate functional commonalities between the mechanisms underlying the recognition of faces and non-face objects, which are modulated by different task requirements in the two stimulus domains.
在视觉感知文献中，面部识别常常与非面部物体识别形成对比，涉及部分的作用、部分关系和整体加工方面的差异。然而，近期发展研究的证据开始模糊这种鲜明的区分。我们回顾了物体识别长期发展的证据，这让人联想到对面部识别所记录的缓慢成熟过程。这种长期发展表现为与单个部分相比，度量部分关系的加工延迟，并且与面部识别的发展解释存在惊人的相似之处，尽管在整体加工方面数据的解释不太明确。我们得出结论，这些结果可能表明面部和非面部物体识别背后的机制存在功能共性，这种共性在两个刺激领域中受到不同任务要求的调节。
