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What Mrs Thatcher taught me about face processing| old_uid | 8131 |
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| title | What Mrs Thatcher taught me about face processing |
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| start_date | 2010/02/10 |
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| schedule | 16h-17h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | The Thatcher illusion is thought to demonstrate the processing of perceptual configural features in faces. The basis for this inference is the immediacy of the phenomenological experience of grotesqueness that emerges when the eyes and mouths are inverted in otherwise upright faces. I will report on three experiments that explore how Thatcher faces are discriminated from typical faces. The results of these experiments are inconsistent with perceptual configural processing of Thatcher (and typical) faces. I will go on to argue none of the commonly reported
behavioural tests of configural face processing actually provide supporting evidence for the perceptual processing of configurations. I will finish by considering the implications for studies of both the development of face processing and face processing in atypical populations. |
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| responsibles | Bishop |
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