Does automatic human face categorization depend on head orientation?

• Main Authors: Or, Charles C.-F., Retter, Talia L., Rossion, Bruno
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Face Categorization; Head Orientation
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/159457
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Whether human categorization of visual stimuli as faces is optimal for full-front views, best revealing diagnostic features but lacking depth cues, remains largely unknown. To address this question, we presented 16 human observers with unsegmented natural images of different living and non-living ob...