Preserving informational separability and violating decisional separability in facial perception and recognition.
The holistic encoding hypothesis (M. J. Farah, K. D. Wilson, M. Drain, & J. N. Tanaka, 1998) proposes that faces are encoded and used in perception and cognition as relatively undifferentiated wholes. A previous study (M. J. Wenger & E. M. Ingvalson, 2002) found very little support for the strong version of this hypothesis and instead found evidence that shifts in decisional criteria may be important. This study provides a replication and stronger test of those findings, demonstrating consistent violations of decisional separability and preservation of informational separability in both immediate perception and delayed recognition.
Wenger
Michael J
MJ
Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA. mwenger1@nd.edu
Ingvalson
Erin M
EM
D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D003657:Decision Making; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011930:Reaction Time; D012153:Retention, Psychology