Gutenberg Open Science: The face inversion effect in opponent-stimulus rivalry

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dc.contributor.author	Persike, Malte	-
dc.contributor.author	Meinhardt-Injac, Bozana	-
dc.contributor.author	Meinhardt, Günter	-
dc.date.accessioned	2022-10-12T10:28:57Z	-
dc.date.available	2022-10-12T10:28:57Z	-
dc.date.issued	2014	-
dc.identifier.uri	https://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/7970	-
dc.description.abstract	BACKGROUND: The face inversion effect is regarded as a hallmark of face-specific processing, and can be observed in a large variety of visual tasks. Face inversion effects are also reported in binocular rivalry. However, it is unclear whether these effects are face-specific, and distinct from the general tendency of visual awareness to privilege upright objects. We studied continuous rivalry across more than 600 dominance epochs for each observer, having faces and houses rival against their inverted counterparts, and letting faces rival against houses in both upright and inverted orientation. We found strong inversion effects for faces and houses in both the frequency of dominance epochs and their duration. Inversion effects for faces, however, were substantially larger, reaching a 70:30 distribution of dominance times for upright versus inverted faces, while a 60:40 distribution was obtained for upright versus inverted houses. Inversion effects for faces reached a Cohen's d of 0.85, compared to a value of 0.33 for houses. Dominance times for rivalry of faces against houses had a 60:40 distribution in favor of faces, independent of the orientation of the objects. These results confirm the general tendency of visual awareness to prefer upright objects, and demonstrate the outstanding role of faces. Since effect size measures clearly distinguish face stimuli in opponent-stimulus rivalry, the method is highly recommended for testing the effects of face manipulations against non-face reference objects.	en_GB
dc.description.sponsorship	DFG, Open Access-Publizieren Universität Mainz / Universitätsmedizin	de
dc.language.iso	eng	de
dc.rights	CC BY	*
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/	*
dc.subject.ddc	150 Psychologie	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	150 Psychology	en_GB
dc.title	The face inversion effect in opponent-stimulus rivalry	en_GB
dc.type	Zeitschriftenaufsatz	de
dc.identifier.doi	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-7955	-
jgu.type.dinitype	article	en_GB
jgu.type.version	Published version	de
jgu.type.resource	Text	de
jgu.organisation.department	FB 02 Sozialwiss., Medien u. Sport	de
jgu.organisation.number	7910	-
jgu.organisation.name	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz	-
jgu.rights.accessrights	openAccess	-
jgu.journal.title	Frontiers in human neuroscience	de
jgu.journal.volume	8	de
jgu.pages.alternative	Art. 295	de
jgu.publisher.year	2014	-
jgu.publisher.name	Frontiers Research Foundation	de
jgu.publisher.place	Lausanne	de
jgu.publisher.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00295	de
jgu.publisher.issn	1662-5161	de
jgu.organisation.place	Mainz	-
jgu.subject.ddccode	150	de
opus.date.modified	2018-08-08T07:32:00Z	-
opus.subject.dfgcode	00-000	-
opus.organisation.string	FB 02: Sozialwissenschaften, Medien und Sport: Psychologisches Institut	de_DE
opus.identifier.opusid	25952	-
opus.institute.number	0204	-
opus.metadataonly	false	-
opus.type.contenttype	Keine	de_DE
opus.type.contenttype	None	en_EN
opus.affiliated	Persike, Malte	-
opus.affiliated	Meinhardt-Injac, Bozana	-
opus.affiliated	Meinhardt, Günter	-
jgu.publisher.doi	10.3389/fnhum.2014.00295	de
jgu.organisation.ror	https://ror.org/023b0x485	-
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