Is your own face more than a highly familiar face?

This study aimed to elucidate whether distinct early processes underlie the perception of our own face. Alternatively, self-face perception might rely on the same processes that realize the perception of highly familiar faces. To this end, we recorded EEG activity while participants performed a faci...

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Autores: Alzueta, Elisabet, Melcón, María, Poch, Claudia, Capilla González, Almudena
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/711241
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.01.018
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Self-face processing
familiarity
event-related potential (ERP)
N170
P200
N250
Psicología
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spelling Is your own face more than a highly familiar face?Alzueta, ElisabetMelcón, MaríaPoch, ClaudiaCapilla González, AlmudenaSelf-face processingfamiliarityevent-related potential (ERP)N170P200N250PsicologíaThis study aimed to elucidate whether distinct early processes underlie the perception of our own face. Alternatively, self-face perception might rely on the same processes that realize the perception of highly familiar faces. To this end, we recorded EEG activity while participants performed a facial recognition task in which they had to discriminate between their own face, a friend’s face, and an unknown face. We analyzed the event-related potentials (ERPs) to characterize the time course of neural processes involved in different stages of self-face recognition. Our results show that the N170 component was not sensitive to self-face. In contrast, the subsequent P200 component distinguished between self-face and the other faces. Finally, N250 amplitude increased as a function of face familiarity. Overall, our data suggest that self-face recognition neither emerges at the first stage of the encoding of facial information nor at a later stage when familiarity is processed. Rather, the distinctive processing of self-face arises at an intermediate stage (~200 ms), as indicated by a lower P200 amplitude. This could be taken as an indicator that self-face recognition is facilitated by a reduced need for attentional resources. In sum, our results suggest that self-face is more than a highly familiar faceThis work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) (UAMA13-4E-2192). C.P. was supported by the MINECO (FJCI-2015-24782)ElsevierDepartamento de Psicología Biológica y de la SaludFacultad de Psicología20192019-02-11research articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1AMhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_ab4af688f83e57aainfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10486/711241https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.01.018reponame:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAMinstname:Universidad Autónoma de MadridInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/7112412026-06-23T12:46:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Is your own face more than a highly familiar face?
title Is your own face more than a highly familiar face?
spellingShingle Is your own face more than a highly familiar face?
Alzueta, Elisabet
Self-face processing
familiarity
event-related potential (ERP)
N170
P200
N250
Psicología
title_short Is your own face more than a highly familiar face?
title_full Is your own face more than a highly familiar face?
title_fullStr Is your own face more than a highly familiar face?
title_full_unstemmed Is your own face more than a highly familiar face?
title_sort Is your own face more than a highly familiar face?
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Alzueta, Elisabet
Melcón, María
Poch, Claudia
Capilla González, Almudena
author Alzueta, Elisabet
author_facet Alzueta, Elisabet
Melcón, María
Poch, Claudia
Capilla González, Almudena
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author2 Melcón, María
Poch, Claudia
Capilla González, Almudena
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Facultad de Psicología
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Self-face processing
familiarity
event-related potential (ERP)
N170
P200
N250
Psicología
topic Self-face processing
familiarity
event-related potential (ERP)
N170
P200
N250
Psicología
description This study aimed to elucidate whether distinct early processes underlie the perception of our own face. Alternatively, self-face perception might rely on the same processes that realize the perception of highly familiar faces. To this end, we recorded EEG activity while participants performed a facial recognition task in which they had to discriminate between their own face, a friend’s face, and an unknown face. We analyzed the event-related potentials (ERPs) to characterize the time course of neural processes involved in different stages of self-face recognition. Our results show that the N170 component was not sensitive to self-face. In contrast, the subsequent P200 component distinguished between self-face and the other faces. Finally, N250 amplitude increased as a function of face familiarity. Overall, our data suggest that self-face recognition neither emerges at the first stage of the encoding of facial information nor at a later stage when familiarity is processed. Rather, the distinctive processing of self-face arises at an intermediate stage (~200 ms), as indicated by a lower P200 amplitude. This could be taken as an indicator that self-face recognition is facilitated by a reduced need for attentional resources. In sum, our results suggest that self-face is more than a highly familiar face
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