It's all in your head: Why is the body inversion effect abolished for headless bodies?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 759-767

  Yovel, Galit ^a   Pelc, Tatiana ^a   Lubetzky, Ida ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Body; Face; Holistic; Inversion effect; Part based

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ART; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; FACE; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; POSTURE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955396677     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017451     Document Type: Article

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