Looking at the upper facial half enlarges the range of holistic face processing

Previous studies suggested that upper and lower facial halves might be involved in the human holistic face processing differently. In this study, we replicated and extended the finding above. In Experiment 1, we used the standard composite-face task to measure holistic face processing when participa...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Scientific reports 2023-02, Vol.13 (1), p.2419-11, Article 2419
Main Authors: Wang, Zhe, Ni, Hao, Zhou, Xin, Yang, Xiteng, Zheng, Ziyi, Sun, Yu-Hao P., Zhang, Xiaohui, Jin, Haiyang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
631/378
631/477
Experiments
Face
Facial Recognition
Humanities and Social Sciences
Humans
Hypotheses
Judgment
Mouth
multidisciplinary
Orientation, Spatial
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Previous studies suggested that upper and lower facial halves might be involved in the human holistic face processing differently. In this study, we replicated and extended the finding above. In Experiment 1, we used the standard composite-face task to measure holistic face processing when participants made judgements on the upper and lower facial halves separately. Results showed that the composite-face effect was stronger for the upper facial half compared to the lower half. In Experiment 2, we investigated how facial information was integrated when participants focused on different features, using the perceptual field paradigm. Results showed that: (1) more “peripheral faces” were chosen when participants fixated at the eyes than when they fixated at the mouth; (2) less “peripheral faces” were chosen for inverted faces regardless of the fixated features. Findings from both experiments together indicate that more peripheral facial information were integrated when participants focused on the upper facial half, highlighting the significance of focusing on the upper facial half in face processing.
ISSN:2045-2322
2045-2322
DOI:10.1038/s41598-023-29583-z