Show me the features! Understanding recognition from the use of visual information

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Schyns, P.G. and Bonnar, E.A. and Gosselin, F. (2002) Show me the features! Understanding recognition from the use of visual information. Psychological Science, 13 (5). pp. 402-409. ISSN 0956-7976 (https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9280.00472)

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Abstract

We propose an approach that allows a rigorous understanding of the visual categorization and recognition process without asking direct questions about unobservable memory representations. Our approach builds on the selective use of visual information in recognition and a new method (Bubbles) to depict and measure what this information is. We examine three face-recognition tasks (identity, gender, expressive or not) and establish the componential and holistic information responsible for recognition performance. On the basis of this information, we derive task-specific gradients of probability for the allocation of attention to the different regions of the face.

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Schyns, P.G., Bonnar, E.A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1002-6186 and Gosselin, F.;
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