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1992 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Co-operative study face-pattern perception

Research Project

Project/Area Number 02451010
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field Psychology
Research InstitutionTohoku University

Principal Investigator

MARUYAMA Kinya  Tohoku U. Faculty of Letters Professor, 文学部, 教授 (10004053)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KUDO Nobuo  Tohoku U. Faculty of Letters Assistant, 文学部, 助手 (10234452)
MASAME Ken  Tohoku U. Faculty of Letters Instructor, 文学部, 講師 (40199675)
ENDO Mituo  Hachinohe Junior College Assi.Professor, 助教授 (90185166)
Project Period (FY) 1990 – 1992
KeywordsFace / Wholeness / Information processing / Facial expression / Inverted face / Laterality
Research Abstract

1. We investigated quantitatively the global and the local perception and the process of the interaction between them peculiar to face perception. We termed the emergent impressions processed in the global perception "hologen". 2. Anemotional category effect: A emotional category effect showing the faster processing of happy expressions was clarified in the measurements of time thresholds for recognition and in the backward masking experiments. The results would indicate that this effect occured at the stage of the expression processing. Furthermore, this effect was examined in terms of the upright/inverted conditions and of the cerebral asymmetries in the facial processing. A superior performance in happy faces might be based on the global processing prior to the local one. 3. recognition of familiar faces: Filtering the higher spatial frequency components of the faces, the identification of upright faces was much superior to that of inverted faces. The lower spatial frequency components would be important on perceiving the emotional expressions. When expressing the emotions, left-hemifaces were more accessible to right-hemifaces.

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All Publications (12 results)

  • [Publications] Maruyama,K.,Minakawa,S.,& Okada,H: "Face similarity and its effect on length discrimination about eyebrows" Tohoku Psychologica Folia. 48. 107-113 (1989)

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  • [Publications] Endo,M.,Masame,K.,& Maruyama,K: "Interference from configuration of a schematic face onto the recohnition of its constituent parts" Tohoku Psychologica Folia. 48. 97-106 (1989)

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  • [Publications] Endo,M.,Masame,K.,& Maruyama,K.: "A limited use of configural information in the perception of inverted faces" Tohoku Psychologica Folia. 49. 114-125 (1990)

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  • [Publications] 丸山 欣哉: "顔の知覚における全体・部分・相互作用" 東北大学文学部研究年報. 40. 60-92 (1990)

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  • [Publications] Masame,K.: "Perception of where a person is looking:Overesfimation and underestimation of gaze direction" Tohoku Psychologica Folia. 49. 33-41 (1990)

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  • [Publications] Valentine,T.& Endo,M.: "Towards an examplar model of face processing :The effects of race and distinctiveness" Quaferly Journal of Exper:mortal Psychology. 44A. 671-703 (1992)

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  • [Publications] Maruyama,K.,Minakawa,S.,& Okada,H: "Face similarity and its effect on length discrimination about eye brows." Tohoku Psychologica Folia. 48. 107-113 (1989)

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  • [Publications] Endo,M.,Masame,K.,& Maruyama,K: "Interference from configuration of a schematic face onto the recognition of its constituent parts." Tohoku Psychologica Folia. 48. 97-106 (1989)

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      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Endo,M.,Masame,K.,& Maruyama,K: "A limited use of configural information in the perception of inverted faces." Maruyama,K. 49. 114-125 (1990)

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  • [Publications] Maruyama,K: "Wholeness, parts and their interactions in the perception of face." Annual Reports of the Faculty of Arts and Letters Tohoku University. 40. 60-92 (1990)

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  • [Publications] Masame,K: "Perception of where a person is looking: Overestimation and underestimation of gaze direction." Tohoku Psychologica Folia. 49. 33-41 (1990)

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  • [Publications] Valentine,T.,& Endo,M: "Towards an exemplar model of face processing: the effects of race and distinctiveness." Quaterly Journal of Expelimental Psychology. 44A. 671-703 (1992)

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