Department of Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge, CB1 1PT England.
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 2011 Oct;37(5):1396-406. doi: 10.1037/a0024247.
Inversion disproportionately impairs recognition of face stimuli compared to nonface stimuli arguably due to the holistic manner in which faces are processed. A qualification is put forward in which the first point fixated on is different for upright and inverted faces and this carries some of the face-inversion effect. Three experiments explored this possibility by using fixation crosses to guide attention to the eye or mouth region of the to-be-presented faces in different orientations. Recognition was better when the fixation cross appeared at the eye region than at the mouth region. The face-inversion effect was smaller when the eyes were cued than when the mouth was cued or when there was no cueing. The results suggest that the first facial feature attended to is important for accurate face recognition and this may carry some of the effects of inversion.
与非面部刺激物相比，倒置会不成比例地损害面部刺激物的识别能力，这可能是由于面部以整体方式被处理。有人提出一个限定条件，即对于直立和倒置的面部，首先注视的点是不同的，这就带有一些面部倒置效应。通过使用注视十字来引导注意力指向呈现的不同朝向的面部的眼睛或嘴巴区域，三个实验探索了这种可能性。当注视十字出现在眼睛区域时，识别效果要好于出现在嘴巴区域。当眼睛被提示时，面部倒置效应比嘴巴被提示时或没有提示时更小。结果表明，首先注意到的面部特征对面部识别的准确性很重要，这可能带有一些倒置的影响。
