ArticleRoyal Society open science2018
The high-level basis of body adaptation.
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- Sizing up the crowd: Assessing spatial integration difficulties in body size judgements across eating disorder symptomatology.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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- Flexible Orientation Tuning of Visual Representations of Human Body Postures: Evidence From Long-Term Priming.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Evidence for a perceptual mechanism relating body size misperception and eating disorder symptoms.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2019Article
- Gender and the Body Size Aftereffect: Implications for Neural Processing.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Article
- Body Size Adaptation Alters Perception of Test Stimuli, Not Internal Body Image.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Prolonged visual exposure, or 'adaptation', to thin (wide) bodies causes a perceptual aftereffect such that subsequently seen bodies appear wider (thinner) than they actually are. Here, we conducted two experiments investigating the effect of rotating the orientation of the test stimuli by 90° from that of the adaptor. Aftereffects were maximal when adapting and test bodies had the same orientation. When they differed, the axis of the perceived distortion changed with the orientation of the body. Experiment 1 demonstrated a 58% transfer of the aftereffect across orientations. Experiment 2 demonstrated an even greater degree of aftereffect transfer when the influence of low-level mechanisms was reduced further by using adaptation and test stimuli with different sizes. These results indicate that the body aftereffect is mediated primarily by high-level object-based processes, with low-level retinotopic mechanisms playing only a minor role. The influence of these low-level processes is further reduced when test stimuli differ in size from adaptation stimuli.
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