Ritchie, K.L., Flack, T.R. orcid.org/0000-0002-4115-4466 and Maréchal, L. (2023) Unfamiliar faces might as well be another species: Evidence from a face matching task with human and monkey faces. Visual Cognition, 30 (10). pp. 680-685. ISSN 1350-6285
Abstract
Humans are good at recognizing familiar faces, but are more error-prone at recognizing an unfamiliar person across different images. It has been suggested that familiar and unfamiliar faces are processed qualitatively differently. But are unfamiliar faces at least processed differently from monkey faces? Here we tested 366 volunteers on a face matching test – two images presented side-by-side with participants judging whether the images show the same identity or two different identities – comparing performance with familiar and unfamiliar human faces, and monkey faces. The results showed that performance was most accurate for familiar faces, and was above chance for monkey faces. Although accuracy was higher for unfamiliar humans than monkeys on different identity trials, there was no unfamiliar human advantage over monkeys on same identity trials. The results give new insights into unfamiliar face processing, showing that in some ways unfamiliar faces might as well be another species.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-ncnd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
Keywords: | Face matching; monkeys; unfamiliar faces |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Psychology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 14 Nov 2024 15:38 |
Last Modified: | 14 Nov 2024 15:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13506285.2023.2184894 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:219636 |