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Normal face-based judgements of social characteristics despite severely impaired holistic face processing

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Quadflieg, Susanne [UCL] Todorov, Alexander [Department of Psychology, Princeton University, ISA] Laguesse, Renaud [UCL] Rossion, Bruno [UCL]

Initial evidence indicates that face-based judgements of socially relevant characteristics such as people’s trustworthiness or attractiveness are linked to the configural/ holistic processing of facial cues. What remains a matter of debate, however, is whether such processing is actually necessary for normal social judgements to occur and whether it resembles the type of integrative processing as required for facial identification. To address these issues, we asked a well-characterized case of acquired prosopagnosia (PS) with a marked deficit in holistic processing for face identity to rate a series of faces on several dimensions of social relevance. PS provided ratings within the normal range for most of the social characteristics probed (i.e., aggression, attractiveness, confidence, intelligence, sociability, trustworthiness). Her evaluations deviated from those of healthy controls only when facial dominance was concerned. Taken together, these data demonstrate that the inability to integrate facial information during face individuation does not necessarily translate into a generalized deficit to evaluate faces on social dimensions.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2012
Language Anglais
Journal information "Visual Cognition" - Vol. 20, no.8, p. 865-882 (13 août 2012)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Routledge ((United Kingdom) Abingdon)
issn 1350-6285
e-issn 1464-0716
Publication status Publié
Affiliations UCL - SSS/IONS/COSY - Systems & cognitive Neuroscience
UCL - SSH/IPSY - Psychological Sciences Research Institute
Keywords First impressions ; Holistic processing ; Person perception ; Trait inferences
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Bibliographic reference Quadflieg, Susanne ; Todorov, Alexander ; Laguesse, Renaud ; Rossion, Bruno. Normal face-based judgements of social characteristics despite severely impaired holistic face processing. In: Visual Cognition, Vol. 20, no.8, p. 865-882 (13 août 2012)
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