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Outlining face processing skills of portrait artists: Performance reflects perceptual experience with faces.
Devue, Christel; Barsics, Catherine
2016In Vision Research, 127, p. 92-103
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Keywords :
drawing; portrait artists; face expertise; face perception; face recognition; visual art; voice recognition
Abstract :
[en] Most humans seem to demonstrate astonishingly high levels of skill in face processing if one considers the sophisticated level of fine-tuned discrimination that face recognition requires. However, numerous studies now indicate that the ability to process faces is not as fundamental as once thought and that performance can range from despairingly poor to extraordinarily high across people. Here we studied people who are super-specialists of faces, namely portrait artists, to examine how their specific visual experience with faces relates to a range of face processing skills (perceptual discrimination, short- and longer term recognition). Artists show better perceptual discrimination and, to some extent, recognition of newly learned faces than controls. They are also more accurate on other perceptual tasks (i.e., involving non-face stimuli or mental rotation). By contrast, artists do not display an advantage compared to controls on longer term face recognition (i.e., famous faces) nor on person recognition from other sensorial modalities (i.e., voices). Finally, the face inversion effect exists in artists and controls and is not modulated by artistic practice. Advantages in face processing for artists thus seem to closely mirror perceptual and visual short term memory skills involved in portraiture.
Disciplines :
Theoretical & cognitive psychology
Author, co-author :
Devue, Christel ;  Victoria University of Wellington > School of Psychology
Barsics, Catherine ;  Université de Genève - UNIGE > Centre Interfacultaire en Sciences Affectives > Unité de Psychopathologie et de Neuropsychologie Cognitive
Language :
English
Title :
Outlining face processing skills of portrait artists: Performance reflects perceptual experience with faces.
Publication date :
2016
Journal title :
Vision Research
ISSN :
0042-6989
eISSN :
1878-5646
Publisher :
Elsevier Science
Volume :
127
Pages :
92-103
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Funders :
F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE]
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