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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Radial bias in face identification
Contributor:
Roux-Sibilon, Alexia;
Peyrin, Carole;
Greenwood, John A.;
Goffaux, Valérie
Published:
The Royal Society, 2023
Published in:
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290 (2023) 2001
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1098/rspb.2023.1118
ISSN:
1471-2954;
0962-8452
Origination:
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Description:
Human vision in the periphery is most accurate for stimuli that point towards the fovea. This so-called radial bias has been linked with the organization and spatial selectivity of neurons at the lowest levels of the visual system, from retinal ganglion cells onwards. Despite evidence that the human visual system is radially biased, it is not yet known whether this bias persists at higher levels of processing, or whether high-level representations are invariant to this low-level orientation bias. We used the case of face identity recognition to address this question. The specialized high-level mechanisms that support efficient face recognition are highly dependent on horizontally oriented information, which convey the most useful identity cues in the fovea. We show that face selective mechanisms are more sensitive on the horizontal meridian (to the left and right of fixation) compared to the vertical meridian (above and below fixation), suggesting that the horizontal cues in the face are better extracted on the horizontal meridian, where they align with the radial bias. The results demonstrate that the radial bias is maintained at high-level recognition stages and emphasize the importance of accounting for the radial bias in future investigation of visual recognition processes in peripheral vision.