Journal article
The other-species effect in human perceptions of sexual dimorphism using human and macaque faces
Abstract
Humans are better able to discriminate among human faces than faces of other species. This difference in perceptual discrimination is known as the “other-species effect”. Models of perception have posited that the ultimate functional significance of the other-species effect is a higher discrimination capability within an organism's most familiar and salient stimulus set while attenuating the ability to discriminate amongst unfamiliar stimuli. …
Authors
Fraccaro PJ; Little AC; Tigue CC; O'Connor JJM; Pisanski K; Feinberg DR
Journal
Visual Cognition, Vol. 21, No. 8, pp. 970–986
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Publication Date
October 2013
DOI
10.1080/13506285.2013.843628
ISSN
1350-6285