title: The Philadelphia Face Perception Battery.
abstract: The Philadelphia Face Perception Battery (PFPB) tests four aspects of face perception: discrimination of facial similarity, attractiveness, gender, and age. Calibration with 116 neurologically intact subjects yielded average performance of approximately 90%. Across subjects, there was a low correlation (<0.22) in performance between the tests (with the exception of the attractiveness and age discrimination tests) suggesting that the tests measure independent aspects of face perception. There were modest effects of subject demographic factors upon performance, and test-retest reliability scores (between 0.37 and 0.75) were comparable to other neuropsychological batteries. Modification of the stimuli to obscure internal facial features lowered performance on the age, gender, and attractiveness discrimination tests between 2 and 4 standard deviations. The clinical sensitivity of the battery was demonstrated by testing a patient with acquired prosopagnosia. She showed performance impairments of between 2 and 4 standard deviations on all sub-tests. The PFPB is freely available for non-commercial use.
authors: University of Pennsylvania, Neurology Department, United States.
authors: Amy L
authors: AL
authors: Thomas
authors: Kathy
authors: K
authors: Lawler
authors: Ingrid R
authors: IR
authors: Olson
authors: Geoffrey K
authors: GK
authors: Aguirre
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001504:Beauty; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D015588:Observer Variation; D010465:Perception; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D020238:Prosopagnosia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012737:Sex Factors