Attention to upside-down faces: An exception to the inversion effect
Attention to upside-down faces: An exception to the inversion effect
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DOI：
10.1016/j.visres.2008.09.001
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发表时间：
2008-11-01
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影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Burton, A. Mike
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作者：
Bindemann, Markus;Burton, A. Mike
当人脸被倒过来时，人脸处理的许多方面都受到严重干扰。在这里，我们报告了一个没有发现这种面部反转效应的实例。在视觉提示范式中，一个倒立的脸与一个倒立的物体在提示显示中配对，随后是一个线索位置上的目标（实验1）。对面部线索的反应更快，这表明对倒立面孔的注意偏向。在实验2中，当正脸和倒脸提示配对时，没有发现任何一种提示类型的注意偏差，这表明注意被同样地吸引到两种类型的刺激上。尽管如此，在实验3中，通过操纵两种线索的预测性，注意力可以选择性地偏向直立或倒立的脸，这表明在这些条件下，观察者可以区分直立和倒立的脸。第四项实验重复了实验2，增加了刺激集和任务要求。这些发现表明，可以影响观察者对脸部注意力分配的视觉属性在直立和倒立方向上都是有效的。(C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd版权所有。
When faces are turned upside-down, many aspects of face processing are severely disrupted. Here we report an instance where this face inversion effect is not found. In a visual cueing paradigm an inverted face was paired with an inverted object in a cue display, followed by a target in one of the cue locations (Experiment 1). Responses were faster to face-cued targets, indicating an attention bias for inverted faces. When upright and inverted face cues were paired in Experiment 2, no attention bias for either cue type was found, suggesting that attention was drawn equally to both types of stimuli. Despite this, attention could be biased selectively toward upright or inverted faces in Experiment 3, by manipulating the predictiveness of either type of cue, which shows that observers can distinguish upright and inverted faces under these conditions. A fourth experiment provided a replication of Experiment 2 with an extended stimulus set and increased task demands. These findings suggest that visual attributes that can influence the allocation of an observer's attention to faces are available in both upright and inverted orientations. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.