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The Lady's not for turning: Rotation of the Thatcher illusion

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
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Psychology
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Additional Information: Pdf uploaded in accordance with publisher's policy at http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0301-0066/ (accessed 20/02/2014).
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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