Dartmouth College, Psychological and Brain Sciences, 6207 Moore Hall, Hanover, NH 03755, USA.
Psychol Sci. 2010 Dec;21(12):1854-62. doi: 10.1177/0956797610388044. Epub 2010 Nov 19.
Faces capture humans' attention; yet, beyond aesthetic appreciation, it is presumably not the face itself that interests people but the mind behind it. Minds think, feel, and act in ways that have direct consequences for well-being, but despite their importance, how minds are perceived in faces is not well understood. We investigated this mechanism by presenting participants with morphed images created from animate (human) and inanimate (mannequin) faces. Life and mind were perceived to "appear" at a consistent location on the morph continuum, close to the human endpoint. This location constituted a categorical boundary, as evidenced by increased sensitivity to differences in image pairs that straddled this tipping point. Additionally, the impression of life was gleaned from the eyes more than from other facial features. These results suggest that human beings are highly attuned to specific facial cues, carried largely in the eyes, that gate the categorical perception of life.
面孔吸引着人类的注意力；然而，除了审美欣赏之外，人们感兴趣的可能不是面孔本身，而是面孔背后的思维。思维以对幸福有直接影响的方式思考、感受和行动，但尽管它们很重要，人们对面孔中思维的感知却还不是很清楚。我们通过向参与者展示由有生命的（人类）和无生命的（人体模型）面孔组成的变形图像来研究这个机制。生命和思维被感知到“出现在”变形连续体上一个一致的位置，靠近人类的终点。这个位置构成了一个类别边界，这一点可以从对跨越这个临界点的图像对差异的敏感性增加得到证明。此外，生命的印象更多地来自眼睛，而不是其他面部特征。这些结果表明，人类非常敏锐地感知到特定的面部线索，这些线索主要存在于眼睛中，这些线索决定了对生命的类别感知。
