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General and specific factors in the processing of faces
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posted on 2023-06-09, 04:47 authored by Roeland J Verhallen, Jenny BostenJenny Bosten, Patrick T Goodbourn, Adam J Lawrance-Owen, Gary Bargary, J D MollonThe ability to recognize faces varies considerably between individuals, but does performance co-vary for tests of different aspects of face processing? For 397 participants (of whom the majority were university students) we obtained scores on the Mooney Face Test, Glasgow Face Matching Test (GFMT), Cambridge Face Memory Test (CFMT) and Composite Face Test. Overall performance was significantly correlated for each pair of tests, and we suggest the term f for the factor underlying this pattern of positive correlations. However, there were large variations in the amount of variance shared by individual tests: The GFMT and CFMT are strongly related, whereas the GFMT and the Mooney test tap largely independent abilities. We do not replicate a frequently reported relationship between holistic processing (from the Composite test) and face recognition (from the CFMT)—indeed, holistic processing does not correlate with any of our tests. We report associations of performance with digit ratio and autism-spectrum quotient (AQ), and from our genome-wide association study we include a list of suggestive genetic associations with performance on the four face tests, as well as with f.
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Vision ResearchISSN
0042-6989Publisher
ElsevierExternal DOI
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141Page range
217-227Department affiliated with
- Psychology Publications
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2017-01-17First Open Access (FOA) Date
2018-01-14First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2017-01-17Usage metrics
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