Facial inversion effects: Parts and whole relationship

被引:91
作者
Rakover, SS
Teucher, B
机构
[1] Haifa University, Haifa
[2] Department of Psychology, Haifa University, Haifa
来源
PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS | 1997年 / 59卷 / 05期
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10.3758/BF03206021
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
''Facial inversion effects'' refers to the findings that recognition of inverted faces is less accurate than recognition of upright faces. We now report inversion effects for isolated facial features: forehead, eyes, nose, mouth, and chin, This shows that configurational information extracted from a whole face (i.e., from spatial relationships among the facial features) is not necessary for obtaining the inversion effects. Other factors, such as ''upright-orientation,'' mental rotation, and feature saliency, account for the inversion effects both in a whole face and in its isolated features. We propose a simple formula that satisfactorily predicts the recognition of a whole face and the inversion effects for that face on the basis of its individual features.
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页数:10
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