Changing face contours reduces the inversion effect and overall recognition performance
dc.contributor.author | McCourt, S | |
dc.contributor.author | McLaren, IPL | |
dc.contributor.author | Civile, C | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-05-22T13:01:57Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-05-16 | |
dc.date.updated | 2023-05-22T11:10:19Z | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper investigates how manipulating the face contour would systematically influence the face inversion effect (i.e., better recognition performance for upright vs inverted upside-down faces) and overall face recognition. Experiment 1 (n=144) addressed the question of whether manipulating the face contour would affect the inversion effect for scrambled faces which have disrupted configural information. Our results revealed that blurring the face contour significantly reduced the inversion effect by means of impaired performance for upright scrambled faces. Experiment 2a (n=144) and Experiment 2b (n=144) examined how either blurring the contour or replacing it with a new contour would influence the inversion effect for normal faces. These results confirmed a reduction of the inversion effect mainly due to impaired performance for upright faces. A reduction in overall recognition performance was also recorded for normal faces with a manipulated contour. Experiment 3 (n=144) manipulated the contour of New Thatcherized faces which suffer from partial configural information disruption. The results revealed no influence on the inversion effect but a significant reduction in overall recognition performance. Taken together, our results suggest that face contour information can have an impact in influencing both the inversion effect and overall recognition performance. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | UKRI | en_GB |
dc.format.extent | 100115- | |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 4, article 100115 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crbeha.2023.100115 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | ES/R005532/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/133211 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0001-7966-9433 (Civile, Ciro) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_GB |
dc.rights | ©2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ) | en_GB |
dc.subject | Inversion effect | en_GB |
dc.subject | Configural information | en_GB |
dc.subject | Face recognition | en_GB |
dc.subject | Visual processing | en_GB |
dc.title | Changing face contours reduces the inversion effect and overall recognition performance | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2023-05-22T13:01:57Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2666-5182 | |
exeter.article-number | 100115 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Elsevier via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Data Availability: The datasets generated during the current study are not currently publicly available as a precaution so that other people will not use them to produce new publications. However, these datasets are available to reviewers from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. All the data will be publicly available upon acceptance on the UK Data Service ReShare | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Current Research in Behavioral Sciences | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartof | Current Research in Behavioral Sciences, 4 | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2023-05-10 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2023-05-10 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2023-05-22T13:00:18Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2023-05-22T13:02:01Z | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |
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