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Local Jekyll and Global Hyde: The Dual Identity of Face Identification

Miellet, Sébastien ; Caldara, Roberto ; Schyns, Philippe

In: Psychological Science, 2011, vol. 22, no. 12, p. 1518-1526

The main concern in face-processing research is to understand the processes underlying the identification of faces. In the study reported here, we addressed this issue by examining whether local or global information supports face identification. We developed a new methodology called “iHybrid.” This technique combines two famous identities in a gaze-contingent paradigm, which...

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Putting culture under the Spotlight reveals universal information use for face recognition.

Caldara, Roberto ; Zhou, Xinyue ; Miellet, Sebastien

In: PLoS ONE, 2010, vol. 5, no. 3, p. e9708

Background: Eye movement strategies employed by humans to identify conspecifics are not universal. Westerners predominantly fixate the eyes during face recognition, whereas Easterners more the nose region, yet recognition accuracy is comparable. However, natural fixations do not unequivocally represent information extraction. So the question of whether humans universally use identical facial...