Average faces and gender categories: no evidence of categorical perception

Bülthoff, I; Newell, FN

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Average faces and gender categories: no evidence of categorical perception

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Bülthoff, I
Department Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

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Bülthoff, I., & Newell, F. (2001). Average faces and gender categories: no evidence of categorical perception. Poster presented at Twenty-fourth European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2001), Kusadasi, Turkey.

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Abstract

Categorical perception is a sophisticated mechanism which allows our visual system to discriminate between highly similar objects. Perceptually, physical differences between groups of objects are enhanced as compared to equal-sized differences within a group of objects, thus creating clear boundaries between groups of items. Humans are expert in face recognition. Does a categorical perception mechanism help us to differentiate between male and female faces?
Using a three-dimensional morphing technique, we built an average.