title: Facial inversion effects: parts and whole relationship.
abstract: "Facial inversion effects" refers to the findings that recognition of inverted faces is less accurate than recognition of upright faces. We now report inversion effects for isolated facial features: forehead, eyes, nose, mouth, and chin. This shows that configurational information extracted from a whole face (i.e., from spatial relationships among the facial features) is not necessary for obtaining the inversion effects. Other factors, such as "upright-orientation," mental rotation, and feature saliency, account for the inversion effects both in a whole face and in its isolated features. We propose a simple formula that satisfactorily predicts the recognition of a whole face and the inversion effects for that face on the basis of its individual features.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Haifa University, Israel. rsps742@haifauvm.bitnet
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Rakover
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Teucher
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D014796:Visual Perception