Body Inversion Effects With Photographic Images of Body Postures: Is It About Faces?

As with faces, participants are better at discriminating upright bodies than inverted bodies. This inversion effect is reliable for whole figures, namely, bodies with heads, but it is less reliable for headless bodies. This suggests that removal of the head disrupts typical processing of human figur...

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Main Authors: Emma L. Axelsson, Rachel A. Robbins, Helen F. Copeland, Hester W. Covell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02686/full