Face processing at birth: a Thatcher illusion study
Face processing at birth: a Thatcher illusion study
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00791.x
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发表时间：
2009-05-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Simion, Francesca
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作者：
Leo, Irene;Simion, Francesca
本研究旨在通过测试新生儿对撒切尔错觉的敏感性，探讨新生儿在真实的人脸图像中识别面部变化的能力。使用习惯化程序，研究了新生儿区分未改变的面部图像和眼睛和嘴巴旋转180度（即撒切尔化）的同一张脸的能力。当刺激以典型的直立方向呈现时（实验1），Newsletter能够区分同一张脸的未改变的thatcherized版本，但当它们颠倒时（实验2），却无法区分相同的刺激。研究结果表明，在处理直立面孔时，对精细空间信息（定义为二阶关系信息）的敏感性在出生时已经存在。
The present study was aimed at exploring newborns' ability to recognize configural changes within real face images by testing newborns' sensitivity to the Thatcher illusion. Using the habituation procedure, newborns' ability to discriminate between an unaltered face image and the same face with the eyes and the mouth 180 degrees rotated (i.e. thatcherized) was investigated. Newborns were able to discriminate an unaltered from the thatcherized version of the same face when stimuli were presented in the canonical upright orientation (Experiment 1), but failed to discriminate the same stimuli when they were presented upside-down (Experiment 2). The results indicate that sensitivity to fine spatial information (defined as second-order relational information) in processing upright faces is already present at birth.