Abstract
Research on face sensitivity is of particular relevance during the rapidly evolving Covid-19 pandemic leading to social isolation, but also calling for intact interaction and sharing. Humans possess high sensitivity even to a coarse face scheme, seeing faces in non-face images where real faces do not exist. The advantage of non-face images is that single components do not trigger face processing. Here by implementing a novel set of Face-n-Thing images, we examined (i) how face tuning alters with changing display orientation, and (ii) whether it is affected by observers’ gender. Young females and males were presented with a set of Face-n-Thing images either with canonical upright orientation or inverted 180° in the image plane. Face impression was substantially impeded by display inversion. Furthermore, whereas with upright display orientation, no gender differences were found, with inversion, Face-n-Thing images elicited face impression in females significantly more often. The outcome sheds light on the origins of the face inversion effect in general. Moreover, the findings open a way for examination of face sensitivity and underwriting brain networks in neuropsychiatric conditions related to the current pandemic (such as depression and anxiety), most of which are gender/sex-specific.
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Reference90 articles.
1. Difference in visual social predispositions between newborns at low- and high risk for autism;E Di Giorgio;Sci. Rep. (Nature Piblishing Group),2016
2. The human fetus preferentially engages with face-like visual stimuli;VM Reid;Curr. Biol,2018
3. Newborns’ preferential tracking of face–like stimuli and its subsequent decline;MH Johnson;Cognition,1991
4. Newborns preference for faces: What is crucial?;C Turati;Dev. Psychol,2002
5. Pareidolia in infants;M Kato;PLoS ONE,2015
Cited by
15 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献