Riby Deborah M, Riby Leigh M, Reay Jonathon L
School of Psychology, Newcastle University, Ridley Building, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK.
Psychol Rep. 2009 Dec;105(3 Pt 1):721-6. doi: 10.2466/PR0.105.3.721-726.
A developmental study is presented in which participants must detect the Thatcher illusion in order to match unfamiliar faces on identity. 114 participants between 6 and 67 years of age completed a matching task whereby face pairs were presented upright or under inversion. At all ages, participants were more accurate matching upright than inverted faces. In an altered version of the Thatcher task, where only the eyes or mouth were inverted, all participants were more accurate and faster to detect eye manipulations than mouth manipulations. The results are discussed in terms of the developmental significance of face inversion, the Thatcher illusion, and the salience for protection from the Thatcher illusion.
本文呈现了一项发展性研究，其中参与者必须识别撒切尔错觉，以便匹配不熟悉面孔的身份。114名年龄在6岁至67岁之间的参与者完成了一项匹配任务，在此任务中，面孔对以正立或倒置的形式呈现。在所有年龄段，参与者匹配正立面孔比倒置面孔更准确。在撒切尔任务的一个变体中，只有眼睛或嘴巴被倒置，所有参与者检测眼睛变化比检测嘴巴变化更准确、更快。本文从面孔倒置、撒切尔错觉的发展意义以及防止出现撒切尔错觉的显著性等方面对结果进行了讨论。
