Pachai Matthew V, Sekuler Allison B, Bennett Patrick J, Schyns Philippe G, Ramon Meike
Laboratory of Psychophysics, Brain Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, SwitzerlandDepartment of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton,
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
J Vis. 2017 Jun 1;17(6):5. doi: 10.1167/17.6.5.
What makes identification of familiar faces seemingly effortless? Recent studies using unfamiliar face stimuli suggest that selective processing of information conveyed by horizontally oriented spatial frequency components supports accurate performance in a variety of tasks involving matching of facial identity. Here, we studied upright and inverted face discrimination using stimuli with which observers were either unfamiliar or personally familiar (i.e., friends and colleagues). Our results reveal increased sensitivity to horizontal spatial frequency structure in personally familiar faces, further implicating the selective processing of this information in the face processing expertise exhibited by human observers throughout their daily lives.
是什么让识别熟悉的面孔看似毫不费力？最近使用不熟悉面孔刺激的研究表明，对水平方向空间频率成分所传达信息的选择性处理有助于在各种涉及面部身份匹配的任务中准确表现。在这里，我们使用观察者不熟悉或个人熟悉（即朋友和同事）的刺激来研究正立和倒立面孔辨别。我们的结果显示，对个人熟悉面孔的水平空间频率结构的敏感度增加，进一步表明在人类观察者日常生活中展现出的面孔处理专长中，这种信息的选择性处理发挥了作用。
