Effect of Familiarity on the Processing of Human Faces

Dubois, S.; Rossion, Bruno; Schiltz, Christine; Bodart, J M; Michel, Caroline; Bruyer, Raymond; Crommelinck, Marc

doi:10.1006/nimg.1998.0409

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“…In the context of stereotyping, however, the precise functional significance of amygdala activity remains open to debate (Knutson et al, 2007;Cunningham et al, 2004;Phelps et al, 2000). Although activity in this structure has been observed in tasks demanding the overt categorization of male and female faces (e.g., Fischer et al, 2004;Phillips et al, 2001;DuBois et al, 1999), this effect likely reflects an evaluative component of person construal, rather than stereotyping per se. As Knutson et al (2007) have reported, ''further research is needed before stating that performing gender stereotypic tasks activates the amygdala, as amygdala activation to gender stereotyping has not been previously reported in the literature' ' (p. 926).…”

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Exploring the Neural Correlates of Social Stereotyping

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Turk

Waiter

et al. 2009

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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Abstract& Judging people on the basis of cultural stereotypes is a ubiquitous facet of daily life, yet little is known about how this fundamental inferential strategy is implemented in the brain. Using fMRI, we measured neural activity while participants made judgments about the likely actor (i.e., personfocus) and location (i.e., place-focus) of a series of activities, some of which were associated with prevailing gender stereotypes. Results revealed that stereotyping was underpinned by activity in areas associated with evaluative processing (e.g., ventral medial prefrontal cortex, amygdala) and the representation of action knowledge (e.g., supramarginal gyrus, middle temporal gyrus). In addition, activity accompanying stereotypic judgments was correlated with the strength of participants' explicit and implicit gender stereotypes. These findings elucidate how stereotyping fits within the neuroscience of person understanding. &

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Exploring the Neural Correlates of Social Stereotyping

Quadflieg

Turk

Waiter

et al. 2009

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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“…The sex of faces, like their identity, is a relatively invariant property. Moreover, whereas the extent to which sex processing and identity processing are independent has been a matter of debate (see Young, 1998, for discussion) and a degree of independence has been convincingly established (Bruce et al, 1987), a variety of recent evidence suggests that the sex and identity of faces are processed through a single route (see, e.g., Calder, Burton, Miller, Young, & Akamatsu, 2001;Dubois et al, 1999;Ganel & Goshen-Gottstein, 2002;Goshen-Gottstein & Ganel, 2000), as Haxby et al's (2000) conception of involvement of a neurological pathway in the analysis of invariant properties of faces would suggest. Thus, our finding of asymmetric Garner interference between sex and emotion classification is consistent with this particular reading of Haxby et al's model.…”

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Asymmetric interference between sex and emotion in face perception

Atkinson

Tipples

Burt

et al. 2005

Perception & Psychophysics

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“…For example, Ganel and Goshen-Gottstein (2002) found symmetric Garner interference effects for sex and familiarity judgments, with sex judgments being affected by variations in familiarity, and familiarity judgments being affected by variations in identity. Another result problematic for the parallel systems view is that the FFA has been found to be similarly activated by sex and identity judgments of faces (Dubois et al, 1999).…”

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Symmetrical interaction of sex and expression in face classification tasks

Aguado

Garcı́a-Gutiérrez

Serrano‐Pedraza

2009

Perception & Psychophysics

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Classification of faces as to their sex or their expression-with sex and expression varying orthogonally-was studied in three experiments. In Experiment 1, expression classification was influenced by sex, with angry male faces being classified faster than angry female faces. Complementarily, sex classification was faster for happy than for angry female faces. In Experiment 2, mutual interaction of sex and expression was also found when the participants were asked to classify top and bottom face segments. In Experiment 3, a face inversion effect was found for both sex and expression classification of whole faces. However, a symmetrical interaction between sex and expression was again found. The results are discussed in terms of configural versus feature processing in the perception of face sex and expression and of their relevance to face perception models that postulate independent processing of different facial features.

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Effect of Familiarity on the Processing of Human Faces

Cited by 184 publications

References 57 publications

Exploring the Neural Correlates of Social Stereotyping

Exploring the Neural Correlates of Social Stereotyping

Asymmetric interference between sex and emotion in face perception

Symmetrical interaction of sex and expression in face classification tasks

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