Individual Differences in (Non-Visual) Processing Style Predict the Face Inversion Effect

Individual Differences in 1 Running Head: PROCESSING STYLE AND THE FIE Individual Differences in (Non-Visual) Processing Style Predict the Face Inversion Effect

Unfamiliar faces are not faces: evidence from a matching task.

It is difficult to match two images of the same unfamiliar face, even under good conditions. Here, we show that there are large individual differences on unfamiliar face matching. Initially, we tried to predict these using tests of visual short-term memory, cognitive style, and perceptual speed. Moderate correlations were produced by various components of these tests. In three other experiments...

Effect of visual experience on face processing: a developmental study of inversion and non-native effects.

In adults, three phenomena are taken to demonstrate an experience effect on face recognition: an inversion effect, a non-native face effect (so-called 'other-race' effect) and their interaction. It is crucial for our understanding of the developmental perception mechanisms of object processing to discover when these effects are present in childhood. Three- to 5-year-old Caucasian children (N = ...

Acquired prosopagnosia abolishes the face inversion effect.

Individual faces are notoriously difficult to recognize when they are presented upside-down. Since acquired prosopagnosia (AP) has been associated with an impairment of expert face processes, a reduced or abolished face inversion effect (FIE) is expected in AP. However, previous studies have incongruently reported apparent normal effects of inversion, a decreased or abolished FIE, but also a su...

The roles of visual expertise and visual input in the face inversion effect: Behavioral and neurocomputational evidence

Research has shown that inverting faces significantly disrupts the processing of configural information, leading to a face inversion effect. We recently used a contextual priming technique to show that the presence or absence of the face inversion effect can be determined via the top-down activation of face versus non-face processing systems [Ge, L., Wang, Z., McCleery, J., & Lee, K. (2006). Ac...