title: Dissociating face processing skills: decision about lip-read speech, expression, and identity.
abstract: The separability of different subcomponents of face processing has been regularly affirmed, but not always so clearly demonstrated. In particular, the ability to extract speech from faces (lip-reading) has been shown to dissociate doubly from face identification in neurological but not in other populations. In this series of experiments with undergraduates, the classification of speech sound (lip-reading) from personally familiar and unfamiliar face photographs was explored using speeded manual responses. The independence of lip-reading from identity-based processing was confirmed. Furthermore, the established pattern of independence of expression-matching from, and dependence of identity-matching on, face familiarity was extended to personally familiar faces and "difficult"-emotion decisions. The implications of these findings are discussed.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Campbell
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Brooks
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: de Haan
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Roberts
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D004644:Emotions; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008085:Lipreading; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010700:Phonetics; D014796:Visual Perception