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Theory L3 - Face Processing Flashcards

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What kind of information do we extract from faces?

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INVARIANT information - identity, race, sex - these do not change.

VARIABLE information - age, health, attractiveness, emotional state, attentional focus - these are subject to change.

STATIC and DYNAMIC cues

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What kinds of CUES can we extract from faces?

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STATIC cues - nose shapes, distance between eyes

DYNAMIC cues - emotional expressions, gaze direction (can lead to attitude)

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What is the evidence for face processing being innate?

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  • Newborns prefer to look at schematic faces than concentric circle patterns (Fantz, 1963) - they like face stimuli more than anything else.
  • Newborns (~9mins) track face-like patterns more than control patterns containing rearrangements of the same features.
  • Investigated using the preferential looking paradigm - the longer a baby looks at a stimulus = the more interested they are.

great for adaption :)

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What is the Bruce & Young (1986) Model?

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  1. Faces are processed holistically and orientation- specifically (structural encoding)
  2. Familiar faces are recognised by matching with stored FRUs (face recognition units), gaining semantic information from PINs (personal identity nodes)–> name generation
  3. Unfamiliar faces are processed via directed visual processing

if you encounter someone once or more than once, you will begin to develop a FRU…

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Supporting the Bruce & Young Model, what is the evidence that information for facial recognition is stored separately from names?

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  • People often experience a ‘tip of the tongue’ state for someone’s name. You can get someone’s semantic info without knowing their name. It’s never the other way round.
  • Naming a face takes longer than determining whether the face belongs to an actor or politician (semantic category discrim. faster than name retrieval).
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What is evidence supporting Bruce & Young Model?

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  • Common facial recognition errors involve not recognising a person, recognising a person but not remembering their name, misidentifying a person and feeling familiarity for a person but not recognising identity.
    Thus - all this information must be stored seperately.
  • Also, T-O-T- phenomenon for someoen’s name, despite recognising them.
  • Naming a face takes longer than category discrimination (Semantic info)
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What model is the competitor for bruce & young model?

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Interactive Activation Model

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What is the interactive Activation and competition model?

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  • Dev. by Burton et al., 1990
  • based on Bruce & Young Model
  • Adopts connectionist architecture, and does not attempt to explain how faces are recognised (eg. starting with names or FRUs.)
  • Starts with Facial-recognition units and Name recognition Units > PINs > Semantic info units
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What is configural processing?

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This is when we process faces configurally - eg. the spatial interrelationship between features.

processes faces as a whole, not by their features.

This is how adults/experts perceive faces.

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What is featural processing?

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This is when we process faces using their featural information - eg. the local information contained in individual parts - shape of nose, colour of eyes.

This is how children often process faces, and how everyone processes non-face objects,

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Why is facial processing difficult?

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Because faces always have the same arrangement - same basic information - we need to make within-category discriminations.

Faces differ configurally and featurally.

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What have composite faces shown us about facial processing?

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It is evidence that we process faces configurally/hollistically.

  • We take longer to identify the top half of a composite face when it is aligned. When mis-alligned, we can identify featurally.
  • Decisions about whether composite faces are the same person are faster when it is alligned - when we configurally process.
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what has the face inversion effect shown us about facial processing?

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When we view an inverted face the up-side down, it is not grotesque.

But, when we view an inverted face the right way up, it looks grotesque.

This is because when faces are UPSIDE DOWN we cannot process CONFIGURALLY

but when it is turned up right we process CONFIGURALLY and see that the features are oriented incorrectly.

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What did Langer et al. (2010) show us about face processing?

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  • we are able to detect CONFIGURAL changes in UPRIGHT faces - eg. eye spacing
  • we are better able to detect FEATURAL changes in UPSIDE DOWN faces - because we cannot engage in configural processing.
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What is the difference in the processing of a person’s sex and identity?

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Cloutier et al, 2015

showed that judgements about a model’s sex were not affected by inversion - so they do not need configural processing

judgements about a model’s identity are sensitive to inversion - indicating configural processing

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Can configural processing occur with non-human faces?

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Yes.

Expertise lead to configural processing of non human faces.

Eg - dog breeders rely on configural processing to identify individual dogs. Face inversion disrupts recognition of individual dogs by expert breeders.

if you’re not a expert - you will process it featurally.

Based on this, it was thought that face processing is controlled by brain regions involved in making discriminations between structurally similar category exemplars - domain generality instead of domain specificity.

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What has Functional imaging research shown?

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Activation across both sides of the brain, but stronger on right hemisphere!

identified:

Occipital face area

Face selective superior temporal sulcus - face selective

fusiform face area

*** these are areas that show more activation when you look at HUMAN faces.

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What is the fusiform face area (FFA)?

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  • brain area that shows strong activation in response to faces - it’s in the temporal occipital lobe
  • FFA activation is x4 higher when looking at faces, rather than objects (hands, houses)
  • supports domain specificity of the FFA - within category discrims
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What do face processing impairments tell us?

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Supports the domain specificity theory of the FFA.

Prosopagnosic individuals show ‘face blindness’ but other perceptual and cognitive functions are intact.

  • prosopagnosic patient been found to discriminate between brands and models of cars, and different fruit and veges fine.
  • After a stroke, prosopagnosic patient farmed sheep and learned to recognise sheep faces.
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What is prosopagnosia?

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Face blindness

Damage to the FFA

  • selective inability to recognise familiar faces visually
  • Recognition is usually triggered by other cues such as voice, clothing, hair, gait.
  • their other perceptual and cognitive functions are typically intact. - doesn’t affect IQ

2 types - apperceptive and associative

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How does the Bruce & Young model explain Prosopagnosia?

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  • PROSOPAGNOSIA is a breakdown during structural encoding, FRUs or PINs.

Apperceptive prosopagnosia - the failure to sufficiently perceive and allow a successful match to stores of previously seen faces - break down in structural encoding.

Associative prosopagnosia - accurate percept, just failure to match due to loss of memory stores or disconnection from them.

  • -> can tell diff between 2 faces but can’t identify who it is.
  • -> breakdown @ FRus or PINs
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Facial processing in Autism?

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  • ASD show marked deficits in reciprocal social interaction and communication, and abnormality in face processing.
  • People with ASD don’t pay attention to faces, and is evidence from infancy.
  • People with ASD struggle with configurally processing faces - rely on featural processing
  • children with ASD are delayed in attaining face-related social milestones - eg. looking at someone’s face to gauge reaction
  • problems with attentional allocation

By not attending to faces in development, no neural specification is formed, and leads to further less exposure

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What have functional imaging studies on ASD shown?

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In the autistic brain, the fusiform gyrus, amygdala, & superior temporal gyrus is not activated when looking at faces.

if you force them to look at eyes, amygdala activates.

partly because the brain developed differently because less exposure to facial stimuli.

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Facial gaze and attention in autistic ?

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  • Reduced attention to FACES - When tracking eye movements, ASD adults showed less attention to facial features than controls, with scattered gaze and reduced attention to eyes. More attention towards the mouth. (Klin et al, 2002)
  • 2 year olds with ASD already showed decreased attention to eyes and more to mouth.
  • LEAST attention to eyes - indexed MOST social impairment.
  • Same pattern seen in 1/3 of siblings of ASD individuals.
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What is evidence that we innately communicate through facial expression

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  • INFANTS 42 minutes old already imitate facial expressions - we are predisposed to recognise faces, empathy and communication!
  • CROSS-CULTURAL consistency in combinations of facial movements that make expressions of the 6 basic emotions - joy, fear, surprise, disgust, sadness and anger.
  • CONGENITALLY BLIND individuals also express these basic emotional expression - blind athletes.
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What did Martinez et al. 2014 propose about facial expression?

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  • that there are 21, rather than 6 basic emotions.

- had students make faces in response to verbal cues designed to elicit emotion

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what are the two dimensions of emotion?

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  • Arousal and Valence

AROUSAL - high = excited, tense. low = calm, lethargic.

VALENCE - high = elated, content, low = sad, gloomy.

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What is an example of something thought to be neutral on both dimensions of emotion?

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A chair.

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Example of something thought to be high on both dimensions of emotion?

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Excitement = eg. a rolelr coaster

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Example of something high arousal but low valence

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rotten food - disgust

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Example of something high valence but low arousal

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Beautful sunset

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Example of something Low arousal and low valence

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a funeral.

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What is the common-sense view of emotion?

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  • suggests that our physiological responses (e.g. crying) results because we’re experiencing an emotion.
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What is the james-lange view of emotion?

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  • We feel emotion because of our physiological response.

(facial feedback hypo)

eg. bear –> increased heart rate –> fear.

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What is the evidence of our facial expressions influencing mood?

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  • Participants who viewed a film whist holding a pencil in their mouth between their teeth reported more enjoyment than those who held a pencil between their lips, who reported more anger and less happiness.

Soussignan

  • BOTOX effect
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How do facial expressions influence perception?

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  • When participants posed fear expressions, visual field and size subjectively increased, eye movements to target were faster, nasal volume and air velocity during inspiration increased. –> ENHANCING PERCEPTION
  • the opposite happens for disgust – DIMINISHING PERCEPTION
  • disgust narrows, fear broadens.
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What has amygdala shown us about fear response?

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Even when fear stimuli is shown so fast it does not reach consciousness, the amygdala activates.

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What is the BOTOX effect?

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Those with botox showed compromised experience of fear emotions and perceptions

supports facial feedback hypothesis.

they used a control of ‘fillers’ - this doesnt paralyse the face.

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How do Facial expressions influence behaviour?

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  • Injected bOTOX temporarily to paralyse muscles involved in frowning, and had participants read emotionally evocative sentences.
  • Found slower reading times for sentences describing situations that normally require the paralysed muscle to express the emotion evoked - sadness and anger.
  • using angry faces as conditioned stimuli facilitates aversive classical conditioning in comparison to happy faces
  • infants show enhanced startle responses to negative emotional faces
  • Perception of others’ emotional expression influences our behavioural response - eg. overgeneralisation of someone’s neutral face.
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What is emotion face overgeneralisation

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When someone’s neutral face resembles an emotion, we respond similarly.

  • neutral faces that resemble an angry expression are judged less likeable and less trustworthy and more powerful, hostile and threatening than neutral faces that resemble a happy expression.
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What is configural facial processing disrupted by?

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  • Inversion

- Misalignment

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What leads to prosopagnosia

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Unilateral right, or bi lateral FFA damage

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