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We report data from experiments measuring reaction times necessary to discriminate human faces from non-faces. The study is a continuation of our previous work [1] to establish a benchmark in human face recognition using degraded images. A two-alternative forced-choice (2AFC) experiment is used. Both stimulus images (face/non-face) are uniformly degraded in terms of the number of pixels (using a modification of the Haar wavelet) and the number of gray scales.
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Lakshminarayanan, V., Bhatia, S.K., Samal, A., Welland, G.V. (1997). Reaction Times for Recognition of Degraded Facial Images. In: Lakshminarayanan, V. (eds) Basic and Clinical Applications of Vision Science. Documenta Ophthalmologica Proceedings Series, vol 60. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5698-1_52
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