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Configural information is processed differently in perception and recognition of faces
Adrian Schwaninger1, Stefan Ryf, Franziska Hofer
1Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Spemannstr. 38, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. adrian.schwaninger@tuebingen.mpg.de
Vision Research
|June 5, 2003
Abstract:
Several previous studies have stressed the importance of processing configural information in face recognition. In this study the perception of configural information was investigated. Large overestimations were found when the eye-mouth distance and the inter-eye distance had to be estimated. Whereas configural processing is disrupted when inverted faces have to be recognized the perceptual overestimations persisted when faces were inverted. These results suggest that processing configural information is different in perceptual as opposed to recognition tasks.