Perception of conspecific faces by budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus): II. Synthetic models.
Perception of conspecific faces by budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus): II. Synthetic models.
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DOI：
10.1037/0735-7036.107.1.48
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发表时间：
1993-03
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
S. D. Brown;R. Dooling
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作者：
S. D. Brown;R. Dooling
利用计算机模拟的自然人脸图像研究了虎皮鹦鹉（Melopsittacusundulatus）的人脸感知。个人的面部特征是不同的，所有其他保持不变，然后在几个功能之间的相对重要性是通过改变每个在一个单一的实验。可能发出重要生物信息信号的特征（例如，年龄或性别）在感知上是显著的，而在面孔之间变化但具有有限的信号重要信息潜力的特征则不是。模型面也以正常或改变的配置呈现。鸟类之间的面孔，在正常的配置更容易区分之间的模型与改变配置，即使面部特征上的歧视是基于不同的以同样的方式，这表明，配置线索中起着重要的作用，在面对由虎皮鹦鹉感知。
Perception of faces by budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) was studied with computerized images modeled after natural faces. Individual facial characteristics were varied with all others held constant; then relative importance among several features was determined by varying each within a single experiment. Characteristics with the potential to signal important biological information (e.g., age or sex) were perceptually salient, whereas characteristics that vary among faces but have limited potential to signal important information were not. Model faces were also presented in a normal or an altered configuration. Birds discriminated among faces in a normal configuration more easily than among models with an altered configuration even when the facial features on which the discrimination was based differed in the same way; this suggests that configurational cues play an important role in face perception by budgerigars.