PSY 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Psy, Prototype Theory, Mental Representation
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Point of this suggest that we process right side up faces differently than upside down faces, a demonstration of holistic processing of faces. Perception study, whole condition houses (whole house) vs part condition (aka just the window) = houses processed based on features, faces are processed holistically. Results: people recognized faces way more as a whole-object condition as opposed to a isolated-part condition, people recognized houses more in the isolated-part condition than the whole object condition, but they were pretty close. Conclusion = faces may be perceived more holistically than any other objects. Faces second-order relational information - compare features to "typical" face. A study focused on the investigation of face processing in prosopagnosia. Objects are mentally represented as prototypes to which perceived items are compared, an exact match of the perceived object is not required, only expect an approximate match. These models allow for discrepancies between input and the prototype. Think about the prototype being a normal triangle.
