title: Cognitive Processing of Scrambled Faces: Effects of Instructions and Task.
abstract: The present study tests Rakover and Cahlon's (2013) face-checking model, which grades 7 regular and scrambled faces on a scale of similarity to an upright regular face, by predicting the results of 2 experiments in upright and inverted orientations: Experiment 1, which uses the interest choice task (to choose from a pair of faces the one most interesting), and Experiment 2, which uses the old/new recognition task. The main results of these 2 experiments show that in comparison to Rakover and Cahlon's (2013) findings, the face-checking model preserves its ability to predict satisfactorily the order of the 7 faces in the 2 experiments especially in the upright orientation; however, the model's success in making accurate point predictions is reduced significantly in both the upright and the inverted orientations.
authors.forename: Sam S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Rakover
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003657:Decision Making; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010469:Perceptual Distortion; D055815:Young Adult