Different facets of age perception in people with developmental prosopagnosia and "super-recognisers".

Autor: Attard-Johnson J; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB, UK. jattardjohnson@bournemouth.ac.uk., Dark O; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB, UK., Murray E; Department of Psychological Sciences, School of Natural and Social Sciences, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, GL50 4AZ, UK., Bate S; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB, UK.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Cognitive research: principles and implications [Cogn Res Princ Implic] 2024 Nov 13; Vol. 9 (1), pp. 76. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Nov 13.
DOI: 10.1186/s41235-024-00603-4
Abstrakt: The interplay between facial age and facial identity is evident from several scenarios experienced in daily life, such as when recognising a face several decades after the last exposure. However, the link between age and identity processing, and how age perception abilities might diverge in individuals with different face processing abilities, has scarcely been considered. Furthermore, the approach used to test age perception ability may also influence outcome, but the effect of different paradigms on performance is not yet known. Across three studies, we compare super-recognisers (SRs), people with developmental prosopagnosia (DPs), and a group of neurotypical controls, on three age perception paradigms. There were no differences on the numeric age estimation task (i.e. providing precise age estimates for a series of faces; Study 1), and numeric age estimation task with added noise-distortion to stimuli (Study 2). However, SRs were more accurate when instructed to classify ambient faces as either over- or under- the age of 18 compared to both DPs and controls (Study 3). Thus, there may be nuanced differences in age processing which can be tapped into using separate paradigms; however, given that the difference is only with SRs it remains unclear to what extent these are linked to facial identity processing.
Competing Interests: Declaration Conflict of interest The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
(© 2024. The Author(s).)
Databáze: MEDLINE
Externí odkaz: