Lewis M B
School of Psychology, Cardiff University, PO Box 901, Cardiff CF10 3YG, UK.
Perception. 2001;30(6):769-74. doi: 10.1068/p3174.
Inversion is especially detrimental to the processing of faces. This is clearly demonstrated by the Thatcher illusion. It has been suggested that this detriment is due to a loss of holistic or configural processing for inverted faces (Bartlett and Searcy, 1993 Cognitive Psychology 25 281-316). Stürzel and Spillmann (2000 Perception 29 937-942) suggest that this loss of configural processing occurs suddenly as a face is rotated slowly from upright to inverted. This hypothesis is tested in a study of the reaction times taken to indicate that a face has been Thatcherised at various angles of orientation. The results suggest that there is a gradual loss of configural information rather than a rapid switch from one type of processing to another.
倒置对脸部加工尤其有害。撒切尔错觉清楚地证明了这一点。有人认为，这种损害是由于倒置脸部丧失了整体或结构加工（巴特利特和西尔西，1993年《认知心理学》第25卷第281 - 316页）。施图尔策尔和斯皮尔曼（2000年《知觉》第29卷第937 - 942页）认为，当脸部从正立慢慢旋转到倒置时，结构加工的丧失是突然发生的。在一项关于在不同朝向角度下指出一张脸已变成撒切尔化脸所需反应时间的研究中，对这一假设进行了检验。结果表明，结构信息是逐渐丧失的，而不是从一种加工类型迅速切换到另一种加工类型。
