scholarly journals Tests for Configural processing in the Thatcher Illusion

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 635-635
Author(s):  
T. Menneer ◽  
N. Mestry ◽  
M. Wenger ◽  
N. Donnelly
Keyword(s):  
Configural Processing ◽  
Thatcher Illusion

Comparing neural correlates of configural processing in faces and objects: An ERP study of the Thatcher illusion

NeuroImage ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 352-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luc Boutsen ◽  
Glyn W. Humphreys ◽  
Peter Praamstra ◽  
Tracy Warbrick
Keyword(s):  
Neural Correlates ◽  
Configural Processing ◽  
Thatcher Illusion

The Effect of Inversion on the Encoding of Normal and “Thatcherized” Faces

2003 ◽  
Vol 56 (6) ◽  
pp. 955-975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luc Boutsen ◽  
Glyn W. Humphreys
Keyword(s):  
Image Features ◽  
Inversion Effect ◽  
Configural Processing ◽  
Configural Information ◽  
Processing Strategies ◽  
Local And Global Processing ◽  
The Face ◽  
Feature Based ◽  
Thatcher Illusion ◽  
Inversion Effects

In the “Thatcher illusion” a face, in which the eyes and mouth are inverted relative to the rest of the face, looks grotesque when shown upright but not when inverted. In four experiments we investigated the contribution of local and global processing to this illusion in normal observers. We examined inversion effects (i.e., better performance for upright than for inverted faces) in a task requiring discrimination of whether faces were or were not “thatcherized”. Observers made same/different judgements to isolated face parts (Experiments 1–2) and to whole faces (Experiments 3–4). Face pairs had the same or different identity, allowing for different processing strategies using feature-based or configural information, respectively. In Experiment 1, feature-based matching of same-person face parts yielded only a small inversion effect for normal face parts. However, when feature-based matching was prevented by using the face parts of different people on all trials (Experiment 2) an inversion effect occurred for normal but not for thatcherized parts. In Experiments 3 and 4, inversion effects occurred with normal but not with thatcherized whole faces, on both same- and different-person matching tasks. This suggests that a common configural strategy was used with whole (normal) faces. Face context facilitated attention to misoriented parts in same-person but not in different-person matching. The results indicate that (1) face inversion disrupts local configural processing, but not the processing of image features, and (2) thatcherization disrupts local configural processing in upright faces.

Face Inversion Effect Emerges Under Critical Configural Discrepancy

2010 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jisien Yang ◽  
Adrian Schwaninger
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Face Processing ◽  
Underlying Mechanism ◽  
Inversion Effect ◽  
Configural Processing ◽  
Major Contributor ◽  
Face Inversion Effect ◽  
Configural Information ◽  
Face Inversion ◽  
The Face

Configural processing has been considered the major contributor to the face inversion effect (FIE) in face recognition. However, most researchers have only obtained the FIE with one specific ratio of configural alteration. It remains unclear whether the ratio of configural alteration itself can mediate the occurrence of the FIE. We aimed to clarify this issue by manipulating the configural information parametrically using six different ratios, ranging from 4% to 24%. Participants were asked to judge whether a pair of faces were entirely identical or different. The paired faces that were to be compared were presented either simultaneously (Experiment 1) or sequentially (Experiment 2). Both experiments revealed that the FIE was observed only when the ratio of configural alteration was in the intermediate range. These results indicate that even though the FIE has been frequently adopted as an index to examine the underlying mechanism of face processing, the emergence of the FIE is not robust with any configural alteration but dependent on the ratio of configural alteration.

Visual body processing’s associations to Body Mass Index and internalization of societal beauty ideals

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Cazzato ◽  
Elizabeth Walters ◽  
Cosimo Urgesi
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Visual Processing ◽  
The Body ◽  
Configural Processing ◽  
Cultural Ideals ◽  
Beauty Ideals ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
Processing Mechanisms ◽  
Attention To Detail

We examined whether visual processing mechanisms of the body of conspecifics are different in women and men and whether these rely on westernised socio-cultural ideals and body image concerns. Twenty-four women and 24 men performed a visual discrimination task of upright or inverted images of female or male bodies and faces (Experiment 1) and objects (Experiment 2). In Experiment 1, both groups of women and men showed comparable abilities in the discrimination of upright and inverted bodies and faces. However, the genders of the human stimuli yielded different effects on participants’ performance, so that male bodies and female faces appeared to be processed less configurally than female bodies and male faces, respectively. Interestingly, altered configural processing for male bodies was significantly predicted by participants’ Body Mass Index (BMI) and their level of internalization of muscularity. Our findings suggest that configural visual processing of bodies and faces in women and men may be linked to a selective attention to detail needed for discriminating salient physical (perhaps sexual) cues of conspecifics. Importantly, BMI and muscularity internalization of beauty ideals may also play a crucial role in this mechanism.

Configural processing of faces in old adulthood

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 230
Author(s):  
Haoyue QIAN ◽  
Min ZHU ◽  
Xiangping GAO
Keyword(s):  
Configural Processing

scholarly journals The Thatcher Illusion: Rotating the Viewer Instead of the Picture

Perception ◽  
10.1068/p5508 ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 537-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janek S Lobmaier ◽  
Fred W Mast
Keyword(s):  
Thatcher Illusion

Effects of configural processing on the perceptual spatial resolution for face features

Cortex ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 115-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gal Namdar ◽  
Galia Avidan ◽  
Tzvi Ganel
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Resolution ◽  
Configural Processing ◽  
Face Features

scholarly journals Arguments Against a Configural Processing Account of Familiar Face Recognition

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 482-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Mike Burton ◽  
Stefan R. Schweinberger ◽  
Rob Jenkins ◽  
Jürgen M. Kaufmann
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Configural Processing ◽  
Familiar Face
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