University of Sussex
Browse

File(s) not publicly available

The role of spatial and surface cues in the age-processing of unfamiliar faces

journal contribution
posted on 2023-06-07, 18:57 authored by Patricia A George, Graham Hole
Two experiments investigated the importance of spatial and surface cues in the age-processing of unfamiliar faces aged between one and 80 years. Three manipulations known to affect face recognition were used, individually and in various combinations: inversion, negation, and blurring. Faces were presented either in whole or in part. Age-estimation performance was largely unaffected by most of these manipulations; age-processing appears to be a highly robust process, due to the numerous cues available. Experiment 1 showed that, in contrast to face recognition, age-perception appears to be substantially unimpaired by inversion or negation. Experiment 2 suggests that age-estimates can be made on the basis of either surface information (the 2D disposition of the internal facial features, together with texture information) or shape information (head-shape plus feature configuration, as long as shape-from-shading information is present).

History

Publication status

  • Published

Journal

Visual Cognition

ISSN

13506285

Publisher

Visual Cognition

Issue

4

Volume

7

Page range

485-510

ISBN

1350-6285

Department affiliated with

  • Psychology Publications

Notes

Co-main author

Full text available

  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

Usage metrics

    University of Sussex (Publications)

    Categories

    No categories selected

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC