Lewis, Michael Bevan  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5735-5318
2001.
The Lady's not for turning: Rotation of the Thatcher illusion.
Perception
30
(6)
, pp. 769-774.
10.1068/p3174
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Abstract
Inversion is especially detrimental to the processing of faces. This is clearly demonstrated by the Thatcher illusion. It has been suggested that this detriment is due to a loss of holistic or configural processing for inverted faces (Bartlett and Searcy, 1993 Cognitive Psychology 25 281 - 316). Stürzel and Spillmann (2000 Perception 29 937 - 942) suggest that this loss of configural processing occurs suddenly as a face is rotated slowly from upright to inverted. This hypothesis is tested in a study of the reaction times taken to indicate that a face has been Thatcherised at various angles of orientation. The results suggest that there is a gradual loss of configural information rather than a rapid switch from one type of processing to another.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Psychology |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry |
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| Publisher: | Pion |
| ISSN: | 0301-0066 |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 30 March 2016 |
| Last Modified: | 02 May 2023 17:28 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/35536 |
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