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RECONSIDERING FACE SPECIALIZATION AND FACE INVERSION
by
Noah Z. Schwartz
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(PSYCHOLOGY)
December 2007
Copyright 2007 Noah Z. Schwartz
Object Description
| Title | Reconsidering face specialization and face inversion |
| Author | Schwartz, Noah Z. |
| Author email | nschwart@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Psychology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-10-02 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-10-18 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Greene, Ernest |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Ko, Chien-Ping Walsh, David Wilcox, Rand |
| Abstract | Inverted faces are recognized more slowly and less accurately than upright faces (Yin, 1969). Explanations of this deficit focus on the idea that upright faces are processed configurally or in a holistic/distributed manner, whereas inverted faces are processed in a part wise fashion. Many of the studies used to support this position, however, are confounded by individual differences in face discrimination ability, and a general lack of control over stimulus discriminability across conditions. Using a novel recognition paradigm that controls for individual differences in task difficulty, we show that subjects recognize upright and inverted faces in the same manner, making significantly greater use of configural information than part information. These findings contradict existing face recognition theories and also offer an explanation for other face inversion effects such as the Thatcher Effect (Thompson, 1980). |
| Keyword | face recognition; face inversion effect |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m873 |
| Rights | Schwartz, Noah Z. |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Schwartz-20071018 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume40/etd-Schwartz-20071018.pdf |
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| Full text | RECONSIDERING FACE SPECIALIZATION AND FACE INVERSION by Noah Z. Schwartz A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PSYCHOLOGY) December 2007 Copyright 2007 Noah Z. Schwartz |
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