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Recognizing rotated faces and Greebles: Is the inversion effect unique to faces?

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Ashworth, Alan R. S. Vuong, Quoc C. Rossion, Bruno [UCL] Tarr, Michael J.

The fact that faces are strongly affected by picture-plane inversion has often been cited as evidence for face-specific mechanisms. It is unclear, however, whether this >face inversion effect< is driven by properties shared by faces or whether the effect is specific to faces as a category. To address this issue, we compared the recognition of faces and novel Greebles, which were specifically matched to faces along various stimulus dimensions. In two experiments, participants were required to name individual faces or Greebles following training at either single or multiple orientations. We found that performance systematically decreased with increasing misorientation from either the upright (Experiment 1) or nearest trained orientation (Experiment 2). Importantly, the magnitude of this orientation effect was similar for both faces and Greebles. Taken together, these results suggest that the face inversion effect may be a consequence of the visual homogeneity of the stimulus category, regardless of the category

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2008
Language Anglais
Journal information "Visual Cognition" - Vol. 16, no. 6, p. 754-784 (2008)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Psychology Press ((United Kingdom) Hove)
issn 1350-6285
e-issn 1464-0716
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - PSP/PSP - Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation
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Bibliographic reference Ashworth, Alan R. S. ; Vuong, Quoc C. ; Rossion, Bruno ; Tarr, Michael J.. Recognizing rotated faces and Greebles: Is the inversion effect unique to faces?. In: Visual Cognition, Vol. 16, no. 6, p. 754-784 (2008)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/110918