Source avec lien : Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 7(1). 10.1186/s41235-022-00438-x
Bien que le port d’un masque sur le nez et la bouche soit un moyen simple mais efficace de se protéger et de protéger les autres lors d’une pandémie, les masques faciaux peuvent interférer avec la façon dont nous nous percevons et nous reconnaissons les uns les autres, et peuvent donc avoir des répercussions importantes sur la communication et les interactions sociales. À ce jour, on ignore encore dans quelle mesure le port d’un masque facial qui dissimule la partie inférieure du visage affecte l’extraction de différentes informations faciales.
Although putting on a mask over our nose and mouth is a simple but powerful way to protect ourselves and others during a pandemic, face masks may interfere with how we perceive and recognize one another, and hence, may have far-reaching impacts on communication and social interactions. To date, it remains relatively unknown the extent to which wearing a face mask that conceals the bottom part of the face affects the extraction of different facial information. To address this question, we compared young adults’ performance between masked and unmasked faces in four different tasks: (1) emotion recognition task, (2) famous face recognition and naming test, (3) age estimation task, and (4) gender classification task. Results revealed that the presence of face mask has a negative impact on famous face recognition and emotion recognition, but to a smaller extent on age estimation and gender classification tasks. More interestingly, we observed a female advantage in the famous face recognition and emotion recognition tasks and a female own-gender bias in gender categorisation and age estimation tasks. Overall, these findings allude to the lack of malleability of the adulthood face recognition and perceptual systems.