title: [A review of face illusions].
abstract: A variety of "face illusions," including the gaze illusion, face inversion effects, geometrical illusions, reversible figures, and other interesting phenomena related to face perception, are reviewed in the present report, with many sample images. The "gaze illusion" or the illusion of eye direction includes the Wollaston illusion, the luminance-induced gaze shift, the Bogart illusion, the eye-shadow-dependent gaze illusion, the Mona Lisa effect, etc. "Face inversion effects" refer to the Thatcher illusion, the fat face-thin illusion, underestimation of the upright face, the nose-shortening illusion of the inverted face, etc. "Geometrical illusions" include the Lee-Freire illusion, Yang's iris illusion, overestimation of the farther eye, the eye-shadow-dependent eye-size illusion, etc. "Reversible figures" contain the whole-part reversible figure, Rubin's vase-face illusion, or hybrid images. "Other interesting phenomena" include the flashed face distortion effect, the presidential illusion, predominance of the mouth or eyebrows over eye expression, the eye direction aftereffect, etc. It is suggested that some of these phenomena are highly specific to face perception.
authors: Department of Psychology, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan.
authors: Akiyoshi
authors: A
authors: Kitaoka
mesh_terms: D003358:Cosmetics; D005145:Face; D006801:Humans; D007088:Illusions; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D003358:Cosmetics