To address this question we used magnetoencephalography and anatomically-constrained distributed source modeling to monitor brain activity with millisecond-resolution while subjects performed an orientation task on the upright and upside-down presented images of three different stimulus categories: faces, houses and bodies.
The slides, it almost goes without saying, were presented upside down.
It is presented upside down, with the lacy cheese crisp on top, standing in for a tortilla.
In one experiment, we found above-chance gaydar accuracy even when the faces were presented upside down.
The hollow sculptures, filled with water like baptismal fonts, are made from impressions of cathedral models and presented upside down, so that the viewer looks into their ceilings, getting a close look at structural details.
Atticus Finch, the southern lawyer, widower and father of two so beautifully brought to life by Gregory Peck in Robert Mulligan's adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, turned my expectations upside down and presented me with a bona fide role model, someone whose qualities and actions could actively be applied to my own life.
Most strikingly of all, they find a difference in the allocation of attention between the case in which the shapes on the screen are an upper and a lower case 'H', and the case in which the shapes are an upper case H and number 4, even though the number 4 shape is exactly the same as the lower case h, but presented upside down.
To further prove their thesis that sexual orientation can be discerned by merely facial observation, Tabak and Zayas had their subjects look at photos of men and women presented upside down.
People can judge with surprising accuracy whether someone is gay or straight — even when they're looking at a black-and-white photograph, cropped of hair and identifying marks, and presented upside down.
We recorded participants' body sway while they observed a fixation cross (control condition), an upright point-light display of a gymnast balancing on a rope, and the same point-light display presented upside down.
We recorded participants' body sway while they observed a fixation cross (Control condition), an Upright point-light display of a gymnast balancing on a rope (Upright condition), and the same point-light display presented upside down (Inverted condition).
