Cognitive Processing of Scrambled Faces: Effects of Instructions and Task

The present study tests Rakover and Cahlon's (2013) face-checking model, which grades 7 regular and scrambled faces on a scale of similarity to an upright regular face, by predicting the results of 2 experiments in upright and inverted orientations: Experiment 1, which uses the interest choice...

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Published in:The American journal of psychology Vol. 128; no. 3; p. 379
Main Author: Rakover, Sam S
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States 22.09.2015
Subjects:
Adult
Decision Making
Discrimination (Psychology)
Face
Female
Humans
Judgment
Male
Memory, Short-Term
Models, Psychological
Orientation
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Perceptual Distortion
Young Adult
ISSN:0002-9556
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Summary:The present study tests Rakover and Cahlon's (2013) face-checking model, which grades 7 regular and scrambled faces on a scale of similarity to an upright regular face, by predicting the results of 2 experiments in upright and inverted orientations: Experiment 1, which uses the interest choice task (to choose from a pair of faces the one most interesting), and Experiment 2, which uses the old/new recognition task. The main results of these 2 experiments show that in comparison to Rakover and Cahlon's (2013) findings, the face-checking model preserves its ability to predict satisfactorily the order of the 7 faces in the 2 experiments especially in the upright orientation; however, the model's success in making accurate point predictions is reduced significantly in both the upright and the inverted orientations.
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ISSN:0002-9556
DOI:10.5406/amerjpsyc.128.3.0379