Differences between old and young adults’ ability to recognize human faces underlie processing of horizontal information
- Recent psychophysical research supports the notion that horizontal information of a face is primarily important for facial identity processes. Even though this has been demonstrated to be valid for young adults, the concept of horizontal information as primary informative source has not yet been applied to older adults’ ability to correctly identify faces. In the current paper, the role different filtering methods might play in an identity processing task is examined for young and old adults, both taken from student populations. Contrary to most findings in the field of developmental face perception, only a near-significant age effect is apparent in upright and un-manipulated presentation of stimuli, whereas a bigger difference between age groups can be observed for a condition which removes all but horizontal information of a face. It is concluded that a critical feature of human face perception, the preferential processing of horizontal information, is less efficient past the age of 60 and is involved in recognition processes that undergo age-related decline usually found in the literature.
Author: | Sven Obermeyer, Thorsten Kolling, Andreas Schaich, Monika KnopfORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-278852 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2012.00003 |
ISSN: | 1663-4365 |
Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22536184 |
Parent Title (English): | Frontiers in aging neuroscience |
Publisher: | Frontiers Research Foundation |
Place of publication: | Lausanne |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2013/02/14 |
Date of first Publication: | 2012/04/23 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2013/02/14 |
Tag: | age differences; face perception; memory; spatial frequencies |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | Article 3 |
Page Number: | 9 |
Note: | Copyright © 2012 Obermeyer, Kolling, Schaich and Knopf. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License, which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in other forums, provided the original authors and source are credited. |
HeBIS-PPN: | 331402165 |
Institutes: | Psychologie und Sportwissenschaften / Psychologie |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0 |