Optimal face recognition performance involves a balance between global and local information processing: Evidence from cultural difference

Zhijie Cheng; William G. Hayward; Antoni B. Chan; Janet H. Hsiao

Optimal face recognition performance involves a balance between global and local information processing: Evidence from cultural difference

Zhijie Cheng, William G. Hayward, Antoni B. Chan, Janet H. Hsiao

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

In face recognition, eye gaze to the eye region is reported to be associated with better performance than to the center of a face. Nevertheless, Caucasians and Asians differ in how much they look at the eyes when they scan a face, but have comparable identification performance. To resolve this issue, here we test the hypothesis that optimal face recognition performance involves a balance between global and local face processing. Thus, Asians may benefit from enhancement of local processing and vice versa for Caucasians. We showed that local attention priming using hierarchical letter stimuli led to more eye-focused eye movement patterns compared to global attention priming in both Asians and Caucasians. However, Asians had better performance after local priming than global priming, whereas Caucasian showed the opposite effect. These results suggest that engagement of global/local attention leads to face-center/eye biased eye movements respectively, and optimal recognition performance involves both global and local processing/gaze transitions between the face center and eyes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018
Publisher	The Cognitive Science Society
Pages	1476-1481
ISBN (Print)	9780991196784
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Changing Minds, CogSci 2018 - Madison, United States Duration: 25 Jul 2018 → 28 Jul 2018 https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/past-conferences/

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Name	Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018

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Conference	40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Changing Minds, CogSci 2018
Place	United States
City	Madison
Period	25/07/18 → 28/07/18
Internet address	https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/past-conferences/

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cultural difference
EMHMM
eye movement
face recognition
hidden Markov model

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Cheng, Z., Hayward, W. G., Chan, A. B., & Hsiao, J. H. (2018). Optimal face recognition performance involves a balance between global and local information processing: Evidence from cultural difference. In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018 (pp. 1476-1481). (Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018). The Cognitive Science Society.

Cheng, Zhijie ; Hayward, William G. ; Chan, Antoni B. et al. / Optimal face recognition performance involves a balance between global and local information processing : Evidence from cultural difference. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018. The Cognitive Science Society, 2018. pp. 1476-1481 (Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018).

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Cheng, Z, Hayward, WG, Chan, AB & Hsiao, JH 2018, Optimal face recognition performance involves a balance between global and local information processing: Evidence from cultural difference. in Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018, The Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1476-1481, 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Changing Minds, CogSci 2018, Madison, United States, 25/07/18.

Optimal face recognition performance involves a balance between global and local information processing: Evidence from cultural difference. / Cheng, Zhijie; Hayward, William G.; Chan, Antoni B. et al.
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018. The Cognitive Science Society, 2018. p. 1476-1481 (Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018).

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Cheng Z, Hayward WG, Chan AB, Hsiao JH. Optimal face recognition performance involves a balance between global and local information processing: Evidence from cultural difference. In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018. The Cognitive Science Society. 2018. p. 1476-1481. (Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018).

Optimal face recognition performance involves a balance between global and local information processing: Evidence from cultural difference

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