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| Research article summary (published 30 Dec 2001): |
Is there a linear or a nonlinear relationship between rotation and configural processing of faces?
Full Abstract
Research suggests that inverted faces are harder to recognise than upright faces because of a disruption in processing their configural properties. Reasons for this difficulty were explored by investigating people's ability to identify faces at intermediate angles of rotation. Participants were asked to discriminate blurred famous and unfamiliar faces presented at nine angles. Blurred faces were used to minimise featural processing strategies, and to assess the effects of rotation that are specific to configural processing. The results indicate a linear relationship between angle of rotation and recognition accuracy. It appears that configural processing becomes gradually more disrupted the further a face is oriented away from the upright. The implications of these findings for competing explanations of the face-inversion effect are discussed.
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Author/s: Collishaw, Stephan M (SM); Hole, Graham J (GJ);
Affiliation: School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, Universty of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK. stefanc(-atsign-)cogs.susx.ac.uk
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Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal: Perception (Perception), published in England. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-; vol 31 (issue 3) : pp 287-96
Dates: Created 2002/04/16; Completed 2002/04/25; Revised 2004/11/17;
PMID: 11954691, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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