Looking at My Own Face: Visual Processing Strategies in Self–Other Face Recognition
We live in an age of ‘selfies.’ Yet, how we look at our own faces has seldom been systematically investigated. In this study we test if the visual processing of the highly familiar self-face is different from other faces, using psychophysics and eye-tracking. This paradigm also enabled us to test th...
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| description | We live in an age of ‘selfies.’ Yet, how we look at our own faces has seldom been systematically investigated. In this study we test if the visual processing of the highly familiar self-face is different from other faces, using psychophysics and eye-tracking. This paradigm also enabled us to test the association between the psychophysical properties of self-face representation and visual processing strategies involved in self-face recognition. Thirty-three adults performed a self-face recognition task from a series of self-other face morphs with simultaneous eye-tracking. Participants were found to look longer at the lower part of the face for self-face compared to other-face. Participants with a more distinct self-face representation, as indexed by a steeper slope of the psychometric response curve for self-face recognition, were found to look longer at upper part of the faces identified as ‘self’ vs. those identified as ‘other’. This result indicates that self-face representation can influence where we look when we process our own vs. others’ faces. We also investigated the association of autism-related traits with self-face processing metrics since autism has previously been associated with atypical self-processing. The study did not find any self-face specific association with autistic traits, suggesting that autism-related features may be related to self-processing in a domain specific manner. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-05d793c157434fde930925e8ba99c7842022-12-21T23:51:56ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782018-02-01910.3389/fpsyg.2018.00121250074Looking at My Own Face: Visual Processing Strategies in Self–Other Face RecognitionAnya ChakrabortyBhismadev ChakrabartiWe live in an age of ‘selfies.’ Yet, how we look at our own faces has seldom been systematically investigated. In this study we test if the visual processing of the highly familiar self-face is different from other faces, using psychophysics and eye-tracking. This paradigm also enabled us to test the association between the psychophysical properties of self-face representation and visual processing strategies involved in self-face recognition. Thirty-three adults performed a self-face recognition task from a series of self-other face morphs with simultaneous eye-tracking. Participants were found to look longer at the lower part of the face for self-face compared to other-face. Participants with a more distinct self-face representation, as indexed by a steeper slope of the psychometric response curve for self-face recognition, were found to look longer at upper part of the faces identified as ‘self’ vs. those identified as ‘other’. This result indicates that self-face representation can influence where we look when we process our own vs. others’ faces. We also investigated the association of autism-related traits with self-face processing metrics since autism has previously been associated with atypical self-processing. The study did not find any self-face specific association with autistic traits, suggesting that autism-related features may be related to self-processing in a domain specific manner.http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00121/fullphysical self-representationself-faceautism spectrum disordervisual processingeye-trackingpsychophysics |
| spellingShingle | Anya Chakraborty Bhismadev Chakrabarti Looking at My Own Face: Visual Processing Strategies in Self–Other Face Recognition Frontiers in Psychology physical self-representation self-face autism spectrum disorder visual processing eye-tracking psychophysics |
| title | Looking at My Own Face: Visual Processing Strategies in Self–Other Face Recognition |
| title_full | Looking at My Own Face: Visual Processing Strategies in Self–Other Face Recognition |
| title_fullStr | Looking at My Own Face: Visual Processing Strategies in Self–Other Face Recognition |
| title_full_unstemmed | Looking at My Own Face: Visual Processing Strategies in Self–Other Face Recognition |
| title_short | Looking at My Own Face: Visual Processing Strategies in Self–Other Face Recognition |
| title_sort | looking at my own face visual processing strategies in self other face recognition |
| topic | physical self-representation self-face autism spectrum disorder visual processing eye-tracking psychophysics |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00121/full |
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