Face and body emotion recognition depend on different orientation sub-bands

Balas, Benjamin; Huynh, Carol

doi:10.1080/13506285.2015.1077912

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“…Our results reveal that the low-level tuning of body emotion recognition changes during childhood. First, we replicated Balas and Huynh’s (2015) observation that adults exhibit a vertical orientation bias for body emotion recognition, in contrast to the horizontal orientation bias that is typically observed for facial emotion recognition. Children exhibited qualitatively the same bias across our entire age range, but with important quantitative changes in the magnitude of that bias.…”

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“…For adults, vertical orientations are more important than horizontal orientation (Balas & Huynh, 2015), which is the opposite pattern observed for facial emotion recognition. This differential dependence on horizontal vs. vertical orientation for emotion categorization as a function of stimulus category suggests that the development of these two aspects of emotion categorization may proceed on different timescales, or have different properties.…”

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Body emotion recognition disproportionately depends on vertical orientations during childhood

Balas

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Saville

et al. 2017

International Journal of Behavioral Development

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Children’s ability to recognize emotional expressions from faces and bodies develops during childhood. However, the low-level features that support accurate body emotion recognition during development have not been well characterized. This is in marked contrast to facial emotion recognition, which is known to depend upon specific spatial frequency and orientation sub-bands during adulthood, biases that develop during childhood. Here, we examined whether children’s reliance on vertical vs. horizontal orientation energy for recognizing emotional expressions in static images of bodies changed during middle childhood (5 to 10 years old). We found that while children of all ages had an adult-like bias favoring vertical orientation energy, this effect was larger at younger ages. We conclude that in terms of information use, a key feature of the development of emotion recognition is improved performance with sub-optimal features for recognition – that is, learning to use less diagnostic features of the image is a slower process than learning to use more useful features.

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Body emotion recognition disproportionately depends on vertical orientations during childhood

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Saville

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International Journal of Behavioral Development

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“…Masking horizontal orientation information with noise also impairs face recognition performance relative to the masking of other orientation sub‐bands (Pachai, Sekuler, & Bennett, ), and demonstrates the lower efficiency of face recognition in the absence of this information. Besides face identification/discrimination, horizontal orientation information also proves superior than other orientation sub‐bands for emotion recognition (Huynh & Balas, ), an effect that is specific to faces and does not generalize to body stimuli (Balas & Huynh, ). While the horizontal orientation advantage does not extend to all aspects of face perception (gaze perception, for example, does not appear to selectively depend on horizontal information; Goffaux and Okamoto‐Barth, ), this information bias is nonetheless quite robust and applies to a broad class of judgments, demonstrating that key representations for processing faces recruit horizontal information to a disproportionate degree.…”

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School‐age children's neural sensitivity to horizontal orientation energy in faces

Balas

Lamsweerde

Saville

et al. 2017

Developmental Psychobiology

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Face processing mechanisms are tuned to specific low-level features including mid-range spatial frequencies and horizontal orientation energy. Behaviorally, adult observers are more effective at face recognition tasks when these information channels are available. Neural responses to face images also reflect these information biases: Face-sensitive ERP components respond preferentially to face images that contain horizontal orientation energy. How does neural tuning of face representations to horizontal information develop? Behavioral results show that this information bias increases over time such that younger children have a reduced bias favoring horizontally-filtered faces that increases with age. In the present study, we chose to investigate how neural sensitivity to these low-level features develops in the same age range, using ERP as a means of studying children and adults. Specifically, we examined how both face-sensitive ERP components (the P100 and N170) changed their responses to faces and non-faces as a function of age and orientation energy. Briefly, we found that the latency of the P100 and N170 component across age groups was consistent with the gradual emergence of a bias favoring horizontal orientation energy during middle childhood. The amplitude of the N170 component, however, exhibited a more complicated developmental profile that does not easily map onto previous behavioral results obtained from children in the same age ranges.

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“…Recently spatial orientations have garnered attention for the role horizontal information appears to play in various aspects of face processing, such as detection (Balas, Schmidt, & Saville, 2015), identification (Dakin & Watt, 2009; Goffaux & Dakin, 2010; Goffaux, Duecker, Hausfeld, Schiltz, & Goebel, 2016; Goffaux & Greenwood, 2016; Goffaux & Schiltz, 2015; Pachai, Sekuler, Bennett, Schyns, & Ramon, 2017), and emotional facial expression recognition (Balas & Huynh, 2015; Balas, Huynh, Saville, & Schmidt, 2015; Duncan et al, 2017; Huynh & Balas, 2014; Yu, Chai, & Chung, 2018). Horizontal information also supports behavioral signatures of face-processing specialization, such as the face inversion effect (Goffaux et al, 2010, 2016; Pachai, Sekuler, & Bennett, 2013).…”

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Revisiting the link between horizontal tuning and face processing ability with independent measures.

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Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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Face and body emotion recognition depend on different orientation sub-bands

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Body emotion recognition disproportionately depends on vertical orientations during childhood

Body emotion recognition disproportionately depends on vertical orientations during childhood

School‐age children's neural sensitivity to horizontal orientation energy in faces

Revisiting the link between horizontal tuning and face processing ability with independent measures.

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