PSY353H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Two-Streams Hypothesis, Face Perception, N170
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Perceiving others: ideas about their internal state (moods, whether they"re paying attention, recognizing features of the person that give you an indication of their age, health status, race, gender. You would be able to recognize many differences between humans, but you may not be able to tell differences between other chimps. Homogeneous in terms of the relative positioning of the main elements: we all have eyes, noses, mouths, etc. but we can still tell the differences between person to person. Adult humans can recognize hundreds of faces. Preference for faces compared to other categories of visual stimuli. Newborns track face-like patterns minutes after birth and prefer real faces to inverted faces: babies fixate on the upright face longer than the inverted face. Newborns (1-3 days old) prefer top-heavy face configurations, but don"t necessarily distinguish between possible vs. impossible faces: something about the orientation and distribution of the top and bottom features affects their fixation length.
