Matheson Heath E, McMullen Patricia A
Department of Psychology/Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4J1, Canada.
Perception. 2009;38(7):1072-86. doi: 10.1068/p6134.
We investigated here the detection of 2nd-order configural relations both in faces and in non-face objects. In experiment 1 it was shown that observers were more sensitive to feature displacements in upright faces and houses than in inverted faces and houses. The presence of an inversion effect in the house stimuli suggested that 2nd-order relational processing was applied to the non-face stimuli. In experiment 2, the inversion effect for houses was absent when only houses were presented. In experiment 3, face and house stimuli were once again presented in the same task and inversion effects were again seen for both types of stimuli. Together, these results suggest that 2nd-order relational processing can be flexibly applied to non-face objects when they are presented in the context of faces.
我们在此研究了二阶构型关系在面孔和非面孔物体中的检测情况。在实验1中，结果表明，观察者对正立面孔和房屋中的特征位移比倒立面孔和房屋中的特征位移更为敏感。房屋刺激中存在倒置效应，这表明二阶关系处理被应用于非面孔刺激。在实验2中，当仅呈现房屋时，房屋的倒置效应不存在。在实验3中，面孔和房屋刺激再次在同一任务中呈现，两种类型的刺激再次出现倒置效应。这些结果共同表明，当非面孔物体在面孔的背景中呈现时，二阶关系处理可以灵活地应用于它们。
