The Brain
Which lobe of the brain is responsible for the most basic, initial visual processing?
What is the occipital lobe?
People are generally more accurate at recognizing faces they know well than faces they have seen only once. These faces are considered?
What are familiar faces?
People recognize faces best when they are _____ and worst when they are _____.
What is upright and upside down?
Johnathan can clearly see a person’s eyes, nose, and mouth, but does not recognize that the person is their roommate until the roommate starts talking. This pattern best reflects which condition?
What is prosopagnosia?
A person can recognize a friend instantly but has trouble describing specific details of the friend’s facial features. This suggests face perception relies more on this rather than on isolated features.
What is the entire face (facial configuration)?
Face recognition is strongly associated with activity in this lobe.
What is temporal lobe?
A cashier is shown a customer’s photo ID and briefly compares it to the person standing in front of them. In spite of clear facial differences, the cashier accepts the ID as a match. This type of error is most likely to occur when judging which type of face?
What are unfamiliar faces?
A student easily recognizes classmates in photographs when their faces are upright but struggles to identify the same faces when the images are rotated upside down. This phenomenon is known as the _____.
What is the face inversion effect?
A person with prosopagnosia can accurately describe a face’s individual features but still cannot recognize who the person is. This pattern shows that face recognition depends on processing the whole face rather than individual features.
What is holistic processing?
A psychologist notices that a patient has difficulty recognizing facial expressions and identifying people, even though their basic vision is intact. This pattern is commonly associated with which disorder?
What is schizophrenia?
A patient recognizes familiar faces better than unfamiliar ones. This difference highlights the role of ______ in face perception.
What is memory?
The difference in accuracy between familiar and unfamiliar faces highlights the role of _____ in face perception.
What is familiarity?
Turning faces upside down makes it harder to recognize how facial features relate to each other. This shows that face recognition depends on _____.
What are the spatial relationships among facial features?
A patient fails to recognize family members by face but can identify them by voice. This suggests face recognition is a ______ ability.
What is specialized?
A building's security guard believes they recognize a person trying to enter the building and allows them inside. Later, it is discovered the guard confused the person with someone who looked similar. Face perception suggests this error occurs because people often rely on this when recognizing unfamiliar faces.
What is general facial similarities?
This region, located in the lower portion of the temporal cortex, is thought to be specialized for face recognition.
What is the fusiform face area?
Emma is apart of a research study. In the research study, she is tasked with studying several unfamiliar faces. Later, she sees those same faces in a different setting than where she originally learned them and struggles to recognize them. This happens because unfamiliar face recognition is?
What is context-dependent?
A student performs normally on tasks that involve recognizing objects but poorly when identifying inverted faces. This pattern suggests face perception relies heavily on recognizing what?
What is the relationships among facial features?
A man fails to recognize his own family members by face but has no trouble identifying everyday objects. This shows that prosopagnosia is this type of impairment.
What is selective impairment?
Individuals with schizophrenia may perform as accurately as participants without schizophrenia on facial recognition tasks, but they often differ in _____.
What is response time?
Damage to this brain region is most likely to impair face recognition.
What is inferotemporal cortex?
A group of people are tasked with watching a brief video and are later asked to identify which individuals appeared in the footage. Those who personally know some of the individuals perform much better than those who do not. This pattern best supports which conclusion?
What is that familiarity greatly improves the accuracy of face recognition?
Inverting faces disrupts recognition more than inverting objects. This suggests faces are processed ______.
What is differently than objects?
A patient with prosopagnosia can read street signs and recognize objects like cars and chairs without difficulty. This shows the disorder is not caused by this general problem.
What is a general visual deficit or poor eyesight?
Cole is asked to view security camera footage of a crime and decide whether the person committing it is his sister. The footage shows the face from an unusual angle so he struggles to recognize the person. This happens because face recognition is highly sensitive to changes in?
What are lighting and angles?