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  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Interattribute distances are thought to be crucial for upright face categorization.
  • Previous research suggested participants struggle to identify faces based solely on interattribute distances.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if humans are highly tuned to interattribute distances, even if the information conveyed is scarce.
  • To definitively assess the role of real-world interattribute distances in upright face processing.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted 6 face gender categorization tasks with 60 observers.
  • Measured and contrasted the efficiencies (performance adjusted for task difficulty) of observers under different facial cue conditions.

Main Results:

  • Efficiencies for faces varying only in interattribute distances were significantly lower (an order of magnitude) compared to faces varying in all respects or all but interattribute distances.
  • This indicates that interattribute distances alone provide very limited information for face categorization.

Conclusions:

  • The findings challenge the long-held notion that real-world interattribute distances are critical for upright face processing.
  • Human face recognition relies more heavily on other facial cues than on interattribute distances alone.