Accelerated recognition of left oblique views of faces.
Because faces in portraits are depicted more frequently in a left rather than a right oblique (half-profile or 3/4) view, we addressed the question of whether people find it easier to recognize the left or right 3/4 view of a familiar person's face. We examined the ability of 13 subjects to match familiar faces that were presented in either the left or right 3/4 view, with names that were presented either before or after the faces (face-name and name-face matching tasks, respectively). In both tasks, the subjects responded more rapidly to a left than to a right 3/4 view of the same face. This suggests that during face recognition the processing of information from faces that are presented in the left 3/4 view is dominant over the processing of right 3/4 views of familiar faces.
Yamamoto
Miyuki
M
Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tennodai 1-1-1, 305-8575 Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. yamamoto@md.tsukuba.ac.jp
Kowatari
Yasuyuki
Y
Ueno
Shogo
S
Yamane
Shigeru
S
Kitazawa
Shigeru
S
D000328:Adult; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology*; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors