Why Do We Find It More Difficult To Recognize Inverted Faces Than Other Inverted Objects? (2023)

1. The Effects of Face Inversion on Perceiving- and Sensing-Based ...

  • Jan 1, 2021 · Face perception is more difficult when faces are inverted compared to when they are upright. However, it is not known whether face inversion ...

  • Face perception is more difficult when faces are inverted compared to when they are upright. However, it is not known whether face inversion disrupts the ability to make perceiving-based discriminations (i.e., the ability to identify a specific feature ...

The Effects of Face Inversion on Perceiving- and Sensing-Based ...

2. Summary | Psychology homework help - SweetStudy

  • We find it rather difficult to recognize inverted faces because inversion changes the relationships among individual facial features. Click or tap “True” or “ ...

3. [PDF] Example 4 (annotated) 1 - Classroom Web

  • Many studies have shown that human faces are more difficult to recognise when inverted, for example a study by. Kohler (1940, cited in Yin, 1969), who thought ...

4. Attention misplaced: The role of diagnostic features in the face ...

5. [PDF] LOOKING AT UPSIDE-DOWN FACES1

  • Memory for faces was compared with memory for other classes of familiar and complex objects which, like faces, are also customarily seen only in one.

6. [PDF] Separate influences of orientation and lighting in the inverted-face effect

  • By this account, inverted faces are no more. “difficult” to process than are any other objects; upright ... we found a pattern of results that was more complex ...

7. Why humans and fish can't recognize faces upside down | Daily Mail Online

  • Jul 28, 2017 · 'This is because we have a specific brain area for processing faces, and when the face is upside down, we process the image through object ...

  • Researchers based in Japan have discovered that Japanese rice fish struggle to recognize inverted faces, and they may have developed a brain pathway for face recognition, just like humans have.

Why humans and fish can't recognize faces upside down | Daily Mail Online

8. [PDF] Attention to faces: A change-blindness study - UCI

  • In experiment 2 we studied detection of local changes to the eyes or mouth, and found the same results. It is well known that inversion and negation impair the ...

9. Perception Lecture Notes: Recognition

  • Is Face Recognition is Special? · Normal subjects performed better (94% correct) for upright than for inverted (82% correct) faces. This implies specialized ...

  • Object recognition is used for a variety of tasks: to recognize a particular type of object (a moose), a particular exemplar (this moose), to recognize it (the moose I saw yesterday) or to match it (the same as that moose).

10. [PDF] The face inversion effect and the anatomical mapping from the visual ...

  • We propose that the way inverted faces are mapped onto the cortex is fundamentally different from the way upright faces are mapped. Our work first shows the ...

11. [PDF] Why Faces Are and Are Not Special: An Effect of Expertise

  • Other investigators also found that inversion detracts relatively little from recognition memory for stimuli other than human faces. Dallett, Wilcox, and D' ...

12. [PDF] No face-like processing for objects-of-expertise in three ...

  • In object novices, all stimuli are remembered better upright than inverted, but this inversion effect is much larger for faces (usually 15-25%) than for objects ...

13. The Inverted-face Effect: Face Recognition Using Incidental ...

  • One simple demonstration of this is the inverted-face effect. Recognizing upside-down faces is far more difficult than recognizing them right-side up, but the ...

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The Inverted-face Effect: Face Recognition Using Incidental ...

14. Individual recognition and the 'face inversion effect' in medaka fish ...

  • Jul 11, 2017 · Humans read the face as a whole, rather than look at parts of the face, which is why it is harder to recognise a face when we see it upside-down ...

  • Being able to recognize each other is crucial for social interactions in humans, as well as many other animals. To humans, faces are the most important body part to differentiate between one another. Humans read the face as a whole, rather than look at parts of the face, which is why it is harder to recognise a face when we see it upside-down, but not when we see an upside-down object. Some other mammals also identify each other by the face and take longer to recognise an upside-down face, but this ability has never been observed in animals other than mammals. Previous research has shown that some fish species can distinguish between individuals. For example, female medaka fish prefer males they have seen before to ‘strangers’. However, until now, it was not known if they can recognize individual faces, nor how they distinguish a specific male from many others. To see if medaka fish use vision, smell or both cues to recognise mates, Wang and Takeuchi familiarised the fish before the mating test in different settings. In the first group, the male and the female could see each other but were kept in different tanks; in the second group to test odour cues, the male and the female were in the same tank but could not see each other; in the third group, the fish were in the same tank and could see each other; the fish in the fourth group were kept in different tanks and could not see each other. To make sure the fish can recognise and distinguish between fish or objects, Wang and Takeuchi also performed negative conditioning experiments, in which the females had to learn to form an association between a negative stimulus and a specific situation. Wang and Takeuchi found that medaka fish use both vision and smell to distinguish between other fish, but could recognise each other based on vision alone. More specifically, the fish looked at the faces to tell others apart, and even when spots were added to their faces, the fish could still recognise the other. The mekada fish were also able to discriminate between two fish and two objects, but failed the task when the fish images were presented upside-down. However, when two objects were inverted, they were still able to tell the difference. This suggests that just like humans, faces may be special for fish too. This is the first study that shows the face inversion effect in animals other than mammals. A next step will be to compare the different mechanisms between species, and identify the underlying genes and nerve cells responsible for face recognition. This will enable us to better understand social interactions in fish, and enhance our knowledge of how our own ability to recognize faces has changed from an evolutionary point of view.

Individual recognition and the 'face inversion effect' in medaka fish ...
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