The disproportionate face inversion effect (dFIE) concerns the finding that face recognition is more affected by inversion than recognition of non-face objects; an effect assumed to reflect that face recognition relies on special operations.
Face inversion produces a detrimental effect on face recognition.
In the current study we investigated the effect of face inversion on persistence.
Face inversion had an early and long lasting impact on brain response, which reversed over time.
In addition to the detrimental effect of face inversion on recognition, face inversion has been shown to have a detrimental effect on the detection of a face embedded within a distracting background [21].
Thus biological motion and face inversion effects were double dissociated in terms of their effects on MOT.
The face inversion effect is a well established finding and became a hallmark for the assumption of specialized face processing.
Controls recognized more famous faces than prosopagnosics and recognition performance in both groups was hampered by face inversion.
In a study with unimpaired participants, we demonstrated [50] that the M170 is sensitive to face inversion and familiarity.
There are a few of possibilities that can help explain the effects of face inversion on MOT.
However, when they correlated the effect of face inversion on recognition, they found that only the FFA showed a significant positive correlation.
