Body Inversion Effects With Photographic Images of Body Postures: Is It About Faces?

ABSTRACT: As with faces, participants are better at discriminating upright bodies than inverted bodies. This inversion effect is reliable for whole figures, namely, bodies with heads, but it is less reliable for headless bodies. This suggests that removal of the head disrupts typical processing of human figures, and raises questions about the role of faces in efficient body discrimination. In most studies, faces are occluded, but the aim here was to exclude faces in a more ecologically valid way by presenting photographic images of human figures from behind (about-facing), as well as measuring gaze to different parts of the figures. Participants determined whether pairs of sequentially presented body postures were the same or different for whole and headless figures. Presenting about-facing figures

SUBMITTER: Axelsson EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6896224 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature