Our visual system is able to extract information on facial attractiveness from groups of faces that contain both coarse and detailed information. This raises the question: What information is extracted from a face group? Is the attractiveness perception of multiple faces driven by high or low spatial frequency that can highlight the local or global information of the faces, respectively? In the first experiment, we adapted participants to four unattractive faces with full bandwidth (FB), high spatial frequency (HSF), and low spatial frequency (LSF). We observed significant aftereffects in the HSF faces adaptation condition, which suggests that the perception of multiple unattractive faces is largely driven by HSF information. In the second experiment, we found a similar but different pattern in the direct‐rating tasks, suggesting distinct perception mechanisms in unattractive versus attractive faces. In the third experiment, both the adaptation and direct‐rating paradigms suggested that perception of multiple attractive faces is largely driven by LSF information. Overall, results from the three experiments together found that perception of multiple attractive and unattractive faces depends on visual information from different spatial frequencies, suggesting distinctive mechanisms in processing attractive and unattractive groups of faces.

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有吸引力和不有吸引力的面部表情的感知是由不同的空间频率驱动的。

我们的视觉系统能够从包含粗糙和详细信息的面部组中提取有关面部吸引力的信息。这就提出了一个问题：从面部表情中提取什么信息？是由高空间频率或低空间频率驱动的多张面孔的吸引力感知可以分别突出显示面孔的局部或全局信息吗？在第一个实验中，我们使参与者适应了四个没有吸引力的面孔，这些面孔具有全带宽（FB），高空间频率（HSF）和低空间频率（LSF）。我们观察到了HSF人脸适应条件的显着后效应，这表明对多个不具吸引力的人脸的感知很大程度上是由HSF信息驱动的。在第二个实验中，我们在直接评估任务中发现了相似但不同的模式，建议在没有吸引力的面孔与有魅力的面孔中有不同的感知机制。在第三个实验中，适应和直接评估范式均表明，对多个有吸引力的面孔的感知很大程度上是由LSF信息驱动的。总体而言，这三个实验的结果共同发现，对多个有吸引力和没有吸引力的面孔的感知取决于来自不同空间频率的视觉信息，这表明在处理有吸引力和没有吸引力的面孔组中的独特机制。