PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pareidolia, Face Perception
19 Mar 2017
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Top-down perception expectations influences illusion perception. The dress- manner of casting of light (front or back)- casts a shadow. Big events are expected to have big causal explanations. An innate preference for faces is influenced by experience. Face processing: configural top down processing- holistic perception, featural bottom up processing- features put together to form a face. Composite face effect: this demonstrates that we perceive a face holistically. Processing the whole face upside down is difficult. Features alone are easier to perceive; this can be demonstrated by the thatcher illusion. Playing with lighting on a rotating hollow face mask since we expect a face to be 3d, we perceive both sides of the mask as 3d (charlie chaplin mask experiment) We perceive faces that a redder/with more blush as more attractive- signifies good health as compared to relatively paler face.
