Discriminability effect on Garner interference: evidence from recognition of facial identity and expression
Using Garner’s speeded classification task existing studies demonstrated an asymmetric interference in the recognition of facial identity and facial expression. It seems that expression is hard to interfere with identity recognition. However, discriminability of identity and expression, a potential...
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| description | Using Garner’s speeded classification task existing studies demonstrated an asymmetric interference in the recognition of facial identity and facial expression. It seems that expression is hard to interfere with identity recognition. However, discriminability of identity and expression, a potential confounding variable, had not been carefully examined in existing studies. In current work, we manipulated discriminability of identity and expression by matching facial shape (long or round) in identity and matching mouth (opened or closed) in facial expression. Garner interference was found either from identity to expression (Experiment 1) or from expression to identity (Experiment 2). Interference was also found in both directions (Experiment 3) or in neither direction (Experiment 4). The results support that Garner interference tends to occur under condition of low discriminability of relevant dimension regardless of facial property. Our findings indicate that Garner interference is not necessarily related to interdependent processing in recognition of facial identity and expression. The findings also suggest that discriminability as a mediating factor should be carefully controlled in future research. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3b40e107a6704ef2899b19ce39308cd42022-12-21T18:15:49ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782013-12-01410.3389/fpsyg.2013.0094364970Discriminability effect on Garner interference: evidence from recognition of facial identity and expressionYamin eWang0Xiaolan eFu1Rober Arthur Johnston2Zheng eYan3Capital Normal UniversityInstitute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of SciencesSchool of Psychology, Keynes College, University of KentUniversity at Albany, State University of New YorkUsing Garner’s speeded classification task existing studies demonstrated an asymmetric interference in the recognition of facial identity and facial expression. It seems that expression is hard to interfere with identity recognition. However, discriminability of identity and expression, a potential confounding variable, had not been carefully examined in existing studies. In current work, we manipulated discriminability of identity and expression by matching facial shape (long or round) in identity and matching mouth (opened or closed) in facial expression. Garner interference was found either from identity to expression (Experiment 1) or from expression to identity (Experiment 2). Interference was also found in both directions (Experiment 3) or in neither direction (Experiment 4). The results support that Garner interference tends to occur under condition of low discriminability of relevant dimension regardless of facial property. Our findings indicate that Garner interference is not necessarily related to interdependent processing in recognition of facial identity and expression. The findings also suggest that discriminability as a mediating factor should be carefully controlled in future research.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00943/fullFacial Expressionfacial recognitiondiscriminabilityfacial expression recognitionfacial identityFacial Perception |
| spellingShingle | Yamin eWang Xiaolan eFu Rober Arthur Johnston Zheng eYan Discriminability effect on Garner interference: evidence from recognition of facial identity and expression Frontiers in Psychology Facial Expression facial recognition discriminability facial expression recognition facial identity Facial Perception |
| title | Discriminability effect on Garner interference: evidence from recognition of facial identity and expression |
| title_full | Discriminability effect on Garner interference: evidence from recognition of facial identity and expression |
| title_fullStr | Discriminability effect on Garner interference: evidence from recognition of facial identity and expression |
| title_full_unstemmed | Discriminability effect on Garner interference: evidence from recognition of facial identity and expression |
| title_short | Discriminability effect on Garner interference: evidence from recognition of facial identity and expression |
| title_sort | discriminability effect on garner interference evidence from recognition of facial identity and expression |
| topic | Facial Expression facial recognition discriminability facial expression recognition facial identity Facial Perception |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00943/full |
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