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> it is revealing that he does not do better with upright faces than inverted faces for face detection and face identity matching," Duchaine said. > "The absen
by pjot 3y ago
> it is revealing that he does not do better with upright faces than inverted faces for face detection and face identity matching," Duchaine said.
> "The absence of an advantage for the face orientation that he's had more experience with suggests that our great sensitivity to upright faces results from both our greater experience with them and an evolved component that makes our visual system better tuned to upright faces than inverted faces."
This seems contradictory, or otherwise confusing from which perspective the orientation is being measured from.
- n2d4 3y agoIt's the latter: An "upright face" is a face that has its chin below the forehead. For our eyes, those look like upright faces, but in Claudio's eyes they look like what inverted faces look to us. So, because Claudio is not better at detecting upright faces than inverted faces, even though most of the faces in his life have been upright, that suggests an evolutionary component.