Sensitivity to information conveyed by horizontal contours is correlated with face identification accuracy

We measured thresholds in a 1-of-10 face identification task in which stimuli were embedded in orientation-filtered Gaussian noise. For upright faces, the threshold elevation produced by the masking noise varied as a function of noise orientation: significantly greater masking was obtained with hori...

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Main Authors: Matthew V Pachai, Allison B Sekuler, Patrick J Bennett
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00074/full