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Face processing skills predict faithfulness of portraits drawn by novices.
Devue, Christel; Grimshaw, Gina M.
2018In Psychonomic bulletin & review, 25 (6), p. 2208-2214
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Keywords :
Facial Recognition; Drawing; Expertise; Face processing; Individual differences; Perceptual discrimination; Plasticity; Visual arts; visual perception
Abstract :
[en] Individuals show astonishing variability in their face recognition abilities, and the causes and consequences of this heterogeneity are unclear. Special expertise with faces, for example in portraitists, is associated with advantages on face processing tasks, especially those involving perceptual abilities. Do face processing skills improve through practice, or does drawing skill reflect pre-existing individual differences? If the latter, then the association between face processing skills and production of faithful portraits should also exist in people without practice in drawing. Two exploratory studies and one follow-up confirmatory study provide support for this hypothesis. Drawing ability of novices was predicted by their performance on face recognition tasks involving perceptual discrimination and visual short-term memory, but not by those that rely more heavily on long-term memory or memory for non-face objects. By examining non-experts, we show that expertise with faces might build upon pre-existing individual differences in face processing skills.
Disciplines :
Theoretical & cognitive psychology
Author, co-author :
Devue, Christel ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie > Psychologie et neurosciences cognitives
Grimshaw, Gina M.
Language :
English
Title :
Face processing skills predict faithfulness of portraits drawn by novices.
Publication date :
2018
Journal title :
Psychonomic bulletin & review
ISSN :
1069-9384
eISSN :
1531-5320
Volume :
25
Issue :
6
Pages :
2208-2214
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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