Faces Flashcards
What is apophenia?
Visual system is active in attempts to organise perceptual input
What is featural hypothesis?
Faces primarily remembered due to facial features
What is configurational hypothesis?
Emphasis on the relationship amongst facial features
What is holistic hypothesis
Face as a whole, configurations and gestural hypothesis needed for accurate recognition
What happens with a loss of configurational or featural hypothesis?
Stops efficient face perception from taking place.
What’s the Thatcher illusion
Unable to process individual properties of faces if upside down. Perceive from a global configuration.
What’s the functional face recognition model?
Faces structurally encoded
Activates face recognition units,
If match between encoding and FRU semantic info is processed,
Personal identity nodes contain information about that person.
