You look familiar: How malaysian chinese recognize faces
Authors: Tan, C.B.Y., Stephen, I.D., Whitehead, R. and Sheppard, E.
Journal: PLoS ONE
Volume: 7
Issue: 1
eISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029714
Abstract:East Asian and white Western observers employ different eye movement strategies for a variety of visual processing tasks, including face processing. Recent eye tracking studies on face recognition found that East Asians tend to integrate information holistically by focusing on the nose while white Westerners perceive faces featurally by moving between the eyes and mouth. The current study examines the eye movement strategy that Malaysian Chinese participants employ when recognizing East Asian, white Western, and African faces. Rather than adopting the Eastern or Western fixation pattern, Malaysian Chinese participants use a mixed strategy by focusing on the eyes and nose more than the mouth. The combination of Eastern and Western strategies proved advantageous in participants' ability to recognize East Asian and white Western faces, suggesting that individuals learn to use fixation patterns that are optimized for recognizing the faces with which they are more familiar. © 2012 Tan et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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You look familiar: how Malaysian Chinese recognize faces.
Authors: Tan, C.B.Y., Stephen, I.D., Whitehead, R. and Sheppard, E.
Journal: PLoS One
Volume: 7
Issue: 1
Pages: e29714
eISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029714
Abstract:East Asian and white Western observers employ different eye movement strategies for a variety of visual processing tasks, including face processing. Recent eye tracking studies on face recognition found that East Asians tend to integrate information holistically by focusing on the nose while white Westerners perceive faces featurally by moving between the eyes and mouth. The current study examines the eye movement strategy that Malaysian Chinese participants employ when recognizing East Asian, white Western, and African faces. Rather than adopting the Eastern or Western fixation pattern, Malaysian Chinese participants use a mixed strategy by focusing on the eyes and nose more than the mouth. The combination of Eastern and Western strategies proved advantageous in participants' ability to recognize East Asian and white Western faces, suggesting that individuals learn to use fixation patterns that are optimized for recognizing the faces with which they are more familiar.
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You Look Familiar: How Malaysian Chinese Recognize Faces
Authors: Tan, C.B.Y., Stephen, I.D., Whitehead, R. and Sheppard, E.
Journal: PLOS ONE
Volume: 7
Issue: 1
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029714
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You look familiar: how Malaysian Chinese recognize faces.
Authors: Tan, C.B.Y., Stephen, I.D., Whitehead, R. and Sheppard, E.
Journal: PloS one
Volume: 7
Issue: 1
Pages: e29714
eISSN: 1932-6203
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029714
Abstract:East Asian and white Western observers employ different eye movement strategies for a variety of visual processing tasks, including face processing. Recent eye tracking studies on face recognition found that East Asians tend to integrate information holistically by focusing on the nose while white Westerners perceive faces featurally by moving between the eyes and mouth. The current study examines the eye movement strategy that Malaysian Chinese participants employ when recognizing East Asian, white Western, and African faces. Rather than adopting the Eastern or Western fixation pattern, Malaysian Chinese participants use a mixed strategy by focusing on the eyes and nose more than the mouth. The combination of Eastern and Western strategies proved advantageous in participants' ability to recognize East Asian and white Western faces, suggesting that individuals learn to use fixation patterns that are optimized for recognizing the faces with which they are more familiar.
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