Role of Features and Second-order Spatial Relations in Face Discrimination, Face Recognition, and Individual Face Skills: Behavioral and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data

• Published in: Journal of cognitive neuroscience Vol. 19; no. 9; pp. 1435 - 1452
• Main Authors: Rotshtein, Pia, Geng, Joy J, Driver, Jon, Dolan, Raymond J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209, USA MIT Press 01.09.2007; MIT Press Journals, The
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Anatomical correlates of behavior; Behavioral psychophysiology; Biological and medical sciences; Brain - blood supply; Brain Mapping; Cognition & reasoning; Discrimination, Psychological - physiology; Face; Facial Expression; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted - methods; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Middle Aged; Oxygen - blood; Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology; Perception; Perceptions; Photic Stimulation - methods; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Space Perception - physiology; Statistics, Nonparametric; Studies; Vision; Human; Central nervous system; Cognition; Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging; Encephalon; Discrimination; Topography; Vision; Perception; Behavior; Face; Recognition; Functional imaging; Spatial organization

We compared the contribution of featural information and second-order spatial relations (spacing between features) in face processing. A fully factorial design has the same or different “features” (eyes, mouth, and nose) across two successive displays, whereas, orthogonally, the second-order spatial...