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Title :
Foveal vision determines the perceived emotion of face ensembles.
Author(s) :
Yu, Dandan [Auteur]
Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives (SCALab) - UMR 9193
Ji, Luyan [Auteur]
Song, Yunping [Auteur]
Sayim, Bilge [Auteur]
Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives (SCALab) - UMR 9193
Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives (SCALab) - UMR 9193
Ji, Luyan [Auteur]
Song, Yunping [Auteur]
Sayim, Bilge [Auteur]
Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives (SCALab) - UMR 9193
Journal title :
Attention, perception & psychophysics
Volume number :
85
Pages :
p.209-221
Publication date :
2023-01
English keyword(s) :
Ensemble emotion perception
Foveal input bias
Peripheral vision
Foveal input bias
Peripheral vision
HAL domain(s) :
Sciences cognitives
English abstract : [en]
People can extract summary statistical information from groups of similar objects, an ability called ensemble perception. However, not every object in a group is weighted equally. For example, in ensemble emotion perception, ...
Show more >People can extract summary statistical information from groups of similar objects, an ability called ensemble perception. However, not every object in a group is weighted equally. For example, in ensemble emotion perception, faces far from fixation were weighted less than faces close to fixation. Yet the contribution of foveal input in ensemble emotion perception is still unclear. In two experiments, groups of faces with varying emotions were presented for 100 ms at three different eccentricities (0°, 3°, 8°). Observers reported the perceived average emotion of the group. In two conditions, stimuli consisted of a central face flanked by eight faces (flankers) (central-present condition) and eight faces without the central face (central-absent condition). In the central-present condition, the emotion of the central face was either congruent or incongruent with that of the flankers. In Experiment 1, flanker emotions were uniform (identical flankers); in Experiment 2 they were varied. In both experiments, performance in the central-present condition was superior at 3° compared to 0° and 8°. At 0°, performance was superior in the central-absent (i.e., no foveal input) compared to the central-present condition. Poor performance in the central-present condition was driven by the incongruent condition where the foveal face strongly biased responses. At 3° and 8°, performance was comparable between central-present and central-absent conditions. Our results showed how foveal input determined the perceived emotion of face ensembles, suggesting that ensemble perception fails when salient target information is available in central vision.Show less >
Show more >People can extract summary statistical information from groups of similar objects, an ability called ensemble perception. However, not every object in a group is weighted equally. For example, in ensemble emotion perception, faces far from fixation were weighted less than faces close to fixation. Yet the contribution of foveal input in ensemble emotion perception is still unclear. In two experiments, groups of faces with varying emotions were presented for 100 ms at three different eccentricities (0°, 3°, 8°). Observers reported the perceived average emotion of the group. In two conditions, stimuli consisted of a central face flanked by eight faces (flankers) (central-present condition) and eight faces without the central face (central-absent condition). In the central-present condition, the emotion of the central face was either congruent or incongruent with that of the flankers. In Experiment 1, flanker emotions were uniform (identical flankers); in Experiment 2 they were varied. In both experiments, performance in the central-present condition was superior at 3° compared to 0° and 8°. At 0°, performance was superior in the central-absent (i.e., no foveal input) compared to the central-present condition. Poor performance in the central-present condition was driven by the incongruent condition where the foveal face strongly biased responses. At 3° and 8°, performance was comparable between central-present and central-absent conditions. Our results showed how foveal input determined the perceived emotion of face ensembles, suggesting that ensemble perception fails when salient target information is available in central vision.Show less >
Language :
Anglais
Audience :
Internationale
Popular science :
Non
Administrative institution(s) :
Université de Lille
CNRS
CHU Lille
CNRS
CHU Lille
Research team(s) :
Équipe Action, Vision et Apprentissage (AVA)
Submission date :
2024-01-18T07:30:32Z
2024-02-12T12:42:04Z
2024-02-12T12:42:04Z
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