1 Département de Psychologie, Université de Montréal.
2 Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington.
Psychol Sci. 2019 Feb;30(2):300-308. doi: 10.1177/0956797618811338. Epub 2018 Nov 19.
Face-recognition abilities differ largely in the neurologically typical population. We examined how the use of information varies with face-recognition ability from developmental prosopagnosics to super-recognizers. Specifically, we investigated the use of facial features at different spatial scales in 112 individuals, including 5 developmental prosopagnosics and 8 super-recognizers, during an online famous-face-identification task using the bubbles method. We discovered that viewing of the eyes and mouth to identify faces at relatively high spatial frequencies is strongly correlated with face-recognition ability, evaluated from two independent measures. We also showed that the abilities of developmental prosopagnosics and super-recognizers are explained by a model that predicts face-recognition ability from the use of information built solely from participants with intermediate face-recognition abilities ( n = 99). This supports the hypothesis that the use of information varies quantitatively from developmental prosopagnosics to super-recognizers as a function of face-recognition ability.
人脸识别能力在神经典型人群中存在很大差异。我们研究了从发展性面孔失认症患者到超级识别者，人脸识别能力如何随信息的使用而变化。具体来说，我们在使用气泡法的在线著名面孔识别任务中，调查了 112 个人（包括 5 名发展性面孔失认症患者和 8 名超级识别者）在不同空间尺度上使用面部特征的情况。我们发现，观看眼睛和嘴巴以识别相对高空间频率的面孔与从两个独立的测量中评估的人脸识别能力密切相关。我们还表明，发展性面孔失认症患者和超级识别者的能力可以用一个模型来解释，该模型仅根据具有中等人脸识别能力的参与者（n=99）的信息使用情况来预测人脸识别能力。这支持了这样一种假设，即信息的使用从发展性面孔失认症患者到超级识别者随着人脸识别能力的变化而呈数量上的变化。
