Discrimination of spatial relations and features in faces: effects of inversion and viewing duration.

We studied discrimination of changes in eye position, mouth position, and eye colour at viewing durations ranging from 1 second to unlimited time. With upright faces, perception was rapid and did not improve above 2 seconds of viewing time. Face inversion impaired discrimination of mouth position...

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Published in:	British Journal of Psychology Vol. 92; no. 3; pp. 527 - 550
Main Authors:	Barton, Jason J. S., Keenan, Julian P., Bass, Trevor
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell August 2001
Subjects:	Face Visual perception Recognition (Psychology) Whole & parts (Psychology) Mental rotation
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost