title: The Facial Expressive Action Stimulus Test. A test battery for the assessment of face memory, face and object perception, configuration processing, and facial expression recognition.
abstract: There are many ways to assess face perception skills. In this study, we describe a novel task battery FEAST (Facial Expressive Action Stimulus Test) developed to test recognition of identity and expressions of human faces as well as stimulus control categories. The FEAST consists of a neutral and emotional face memory task, a face and shoe identity matching task, a face and house part-to-whole matching task, and a human and animal facial expression matching task. The identity and part-to-whole matching tasks contain both upright and inverted conditions. The results provide reference data of a healthy sample of controls in two age groups for future users of the FEAST.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht University Maastricht, Netherlands ; Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town Cape Town, South Africa.
authors.forename: Beatrice
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: de Gelder
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht University Maastricht, Netherlands ; Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Tilburg University Tilburg, Netherlands.
authors.forename: Elisabeth M J
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Huis In 't Veld
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Translational Neuropsychiatry, Department of Neurosciences, KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium ; Old Age Psychiatry, University Hospitals Leuven Leuven, Belgium.
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Van den Stock
keywords: configural face processing; emotion recognition; experimental task battery; face memory; face recognition; inversion effect