Preserving Informational Separability and Violating Decisional Separability in Facial Perception and Recognition

The holistic encoding hypothesis ( M. J. Farah, K. D. Wilson, M. Drain, & J. N. Tanaka, 1998 ) proposes that faces are encoded and used in perception and cognition as relatively undifferentiated wholes. A previous study ( M. J. Wenger & E. M. Ingvalson, 2002 ) found very little support for t...

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Published in:Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition memory, and cognition, 2003-11, Vol.29 (6), p.1106-1118
Main Authors: Wenger, Michael J, Ingvalson, Erin M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Attention
Biological and medical sciences
Decision Making
Discrimination Learning
Eyes & eyesight
Face
Face Perception
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Human Information Storage
Humans
Information
Likelihood Functions
Male
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Perception
Perceptual Discrimination
Psychological Theory
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reaction Time
Recognition
Recognition (Learning)
Retention (Psychology)
Sensory perception
Stimulus Parameters
Vision
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Summary:The holistic encoding hypothesis ( M. J. Farah, K. D. Wilson, M. Drain, & J. N. Tanaka, 1998 ) proposes that faces are encoded and used in perception and cognition as relatively undifferentiated wholes. A previous study ( M. J. Wenger & E. M. Ingvalson, 2002 ) found very little support for the strong version of this hypothesis and instead found evidence that shifts in decisional criteria may be important. This study provides a replication and stronger test of those findings, demonstrating consistent violations of decisional separability and preservation of informational separability in both immediate perception and delayed recognition.
ISSN:0278-7393
1939-1285
DOI:10.1037/0278-7393.29.6.1106