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The relative salience of facial features when differentiating faces based on an interference paradigm

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Research on face recognition and social judgment usually addresses the manipulation of facial features (eyes, nose, mouth, etc.). Using a procedure based on a Stroop-like task, Montepare and Opeyo (J Nonverbal Behav 26(1):43-59, 2002) established a hierarchy of the relative salience of cues based on facial attributes when differentiating faces. Using the same perceptual interference task, we established a hierarchy of facial features. Twenty-three participants (13 men and 10 women) volunteered for the experiment to compare pairs of frontal faces. The participants had to judge if the eyes, nose, mouth and chin in the pair of images were the same or different. The factors manipulated were the target-distractive factor (4 face components 9 3 distractive factors), interference (absent vs. present) and correct answer (the same vs. different). The analysis of reaction times and errors showed that the eyes and mouth were processed before the chin and nose, thus highlighting the critical importance of the eyes and mouth, as shown by previous research.

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Expressió facial, Percepció visual, Neuropsicologia

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Facial expression, Visual perception, Neuropsychology

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RUIZ-SOLER, Marcos and SALVADOR BELTRÁN, Francesc. The relative salience of facial features when differentiating faces based on an interference paradigm. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. 2012. Vol. 36, num. 191-203. ISSN 0191-5886. [consulted: 12 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/30867

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