ArticlePloS one2017
Where You Look Matters for Body Perception: Preferred Gaze Location Contributes to the Body Inversion Effect.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A multilevel Bayesian meta-analysis of the body inversion effect: Evaluating controversies over headless and sexualized bodies.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Pooled it
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- Construction and validation of the Dalian emotional movement open-source set (DEMOS).Behavior research methods · 2023Article
- Inversion Effect of Hand Postures: Effect of Visual Experience Over Long and Short Term.i-Perception · 2022Article
- Emotional body postures affect inhibitory control only when task-relevant.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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- Visual exploration of emotional body language: a behavioural and eye-tracking study.Psychological research · 2021Article
- Misalignment between perceptual boundaries and weight categories reflects a new normal for body size perception.Scientific reports · 2021Observational
- Body-Posture Recognition by Undergraduate Students Majoring in Physical Education and Other Disciplines.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Measuring objectification through the Body Inversion Paradigm: Methodological issues.PloS one · 2020Article
- Eye Movement Dynamics Differ between Encoding and Recognition of Faces.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- Body Inversion Effects With Photographic Images of Body Postures: Is It About Faces?Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Body inversion effect in monkeys.PloS one · 2018Article
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Abstract
The Body Inversion Effect (BIE; reduced visual discrimination performance for inverted compared to upright bodies) suggests that bodies are visually processed configurally; however, the specific importance of head posture information in the BIE has been indicated in reports of BIE reduction for whole bodies with fixed head position and for headless bodies. Through measurement of gaze patterns and investigation of the causal relation of fixation location to visual body discrimination performance, the present study reveals joint contributions of feature and configuration processing to visual body discrimination. Participants predominantly gazed at the (body-centric) upper body for upright bodies and the lower body for inverted bodies in the context of an experimental paradigm directly comparable to that of prior studies of the BIE. Subsequent manipulation of fixation location indicates that these preferential gaze locations causally contributed to the BIE for whole bodies largely due to the informative nature of gazing at or near the head. Also, a BIE was detected for both whole and headless bodies even when fixation location on the body was held constant, indicating a role of configural processing in body discrimination, though inclusion of the head posture information was still highly discriminative in the context of such processing. Interestingly, the impact of configuration (upright and inverted) to the BIE appears greater than that of differential preferred gaze locations.
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