Effects of Spatial Frequency Content on Classification of Face Gender and Expression

  1. Aguado Aguilar, Luis 1
  2. Serrano Pedraza, Ignacio 2
  3. Rodríguez Fernández, Sonia 1
  4. Román González, Francisco Javier 1
  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR 02p0gd045

  2. 2 Newcastle University
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    Newcastle University

    Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Reino Unido

    ROR https://ror.org/01kj2bm70

Aldizkaria:
The Spanish Journal of Psychology

ISSN: 1138-7416

Argitalpen urtea: 2010

Alea: 13

Zenbakia: 2

Orrialdeak: 525-537

Mota: Artikulua

DOI: 10.1017/S1138741600002225 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openSarbide irekia editor

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The role of different spatial frequency bands on face gender and expression categorization was studied in three experiments. Accuracy and reaction time were measured for unfiltered, low-pass (cut-off frequency of 1 cycle/deg) and high-pass (cut-off frequency of 3 cycles/deg) filtered faces. Filtered and unfiltered faces were equated in root-mean-squared contrast. For low-pass filtered faces reaction times were higher than unfiltered and high-pass filtered faces in both categorization tasks. In the expression task, these results were obtained with expressive faces presented in isolation (Experiment 1) and also with neutral-expressive dynamic sequences where each expressive face was preceded by a briefly presented neutral version of the same face (Experiment 2). For high-pass filtered faces different effects were observed on gender and expression categorization. While both speed and accuracy of gender categorization were reduced comparing to unfiltered faces, the efficiency of expression classification remained similar. Finally, we found no differences between expressive and non expressive faces in the effects of spatial frequency filtering on gender categorization (Experiment 3). These results show a common role of information from the high spatial frequency band in the categorization of face gender and expression.

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This work was supported by Project SEJ2006-01576/PSIC, from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Luis Aguado. Facultad de Psicología. Campus de Somosaguas. 28223 Madrid. (Spain). Phone:+34-913943161. E-mail: laguado@psi.ucm.es

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