The Oxford Face Matching Test: A non-biased test of the full range of individual differences in face perception.

Autor: Stantic M; Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, New Radcliffe House, Walton St, Oxford, OX2 6BW, UK. mirta.stantic@psy.ox.ac.uk., Brewer R; Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, TW20 0EY, UK., Duchaine B; Department for Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, 6207 Moore Hall, Hanover, NH, USA., Banissy MJ; Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths University of London, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW, UK.; School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TU, UK., Bate S; Department of Psychology, Bournemouth University, Fern Barrow, Wallisdown, Poole, BH12 5BB, UK., Susilo T; School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn Parade, Wellington, New Zealand., Catmur C; Department of Psychology, King's College London, London, SE1 9RT, UK., Bird G; Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, New Radcliffe House, Walton St, Oxford, OX2 6BW, UK.; Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, SE5 8AF, London, UK.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Behavior research methods [Behav Res Methods] 2022 Feb; Vol. 54 (1), pp. 158-173. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Jun 15.
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-021-01609-2
Abstrakt: Tests of face processing are typically designed to identify individuals performing outside of the typical range; either prosopagnosic individuals who exhibit poor face processing ability, or super recognisers, who have superior face processing abilities. Here we describe the development of the Oxford Face Matching Test (OFMT), designed to identify individual differences in face processing across the full range of performance, from prosopagnosia, through the range of typical performance, to super recognisers. Such a test requires items of varying difficulty, but establishing difficulty is problematic when particular populations (e.g., prosopagnosics, individuals with autism spectrum disorder) may use atypical strategies to process faces. If item difficulty is calibrated on neurotypical individuals, then the test may be poorly calibrated for atypical groups, and vice versa. To obtain items of varying difficulty, we used facial recognition algorithms to obtain face pair similarity ratings that are not biased towards specific populations. These face pairs were used as stimuli in the OFMT, and participants were required to judge whether the face images depicted the same individual or different individuals. Across five studies the OFMT was shown to be sensitive to individual differences in the typical population, and in groups of both prosopagnosic individuals and super recognisers. The test-retest reliability of the task was at least equivalent to the Cambridge Face Memory Test and the Glasgow Face Matching Test. Furthermore, results reveal, at least at the group level, that both face perception and face memory are poor in those with prosopagnosia, and are good in super recognisers.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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