Rezlescu, C;
Chapman, A;
Susilo, T;
Caramazza, A;
(2016)
Large inversion effects are not specific to faces and do not vary with object expertise.
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Abstract
Visual object recognition is impaired when stimuli are shown upside-down. This phenomenon is known as the inversion effect, and a substantial body of evidence suggests it is much larger for faces than non-face objects. The large inversion effect for faces has been widely used as key evidence that face processing is special, and hundreds of studies have used it as a tool to investigate face-specific processes. Here we show that large inversion effects are not specific to faces. We developed two car tasks that tap basic object recognition and within-class recognition. Both car tasks generated large inversion effects (~25% on a three-choice format), which were identical to those produced by parallel face tasks. Additional analyses showed that the large car inversion effects did not vary with expertise. Our findings demonstrate that non-face object recognition can depend on processes that are highly orientation-specific, challenging a critical behavioral marker of face-specific processes.
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
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| Title: | Large inversion effects are not specific to faces and do not vary with object expertise |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xzbe5 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Authors 2016. Original content in this pre-print is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Experimental Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10140283 |
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