Where You Look Matters for Body Perception: Preferred Gaze Location Contributes to the Body Inversion Effect.

ABSTRACT: The Body Inversion Effect (BIE; reduced visual discrimination performance for inverted compared to upright bodies) suggests that bodies are visually processed configurally; however, the specific importance of head posture information in the BIE has been indicated in reports of BIE reduction for whole bodies with fixed head position and for headless bodies. Through measurement of gaze patterns and investigation of the causal relation of fixation location to visual body discrimination performance, the present study reveals joint contributions of feature and configuration processing to visual body discrimination. Participants predominantly gazed at the (body-centric) upper body for upright bodies and the lower body for inverted bodies in the context of an experimental paradigm directly compar

SUBMITTER: Arizpe JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5234795 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature