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  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Ophthalmology

Background:

  • Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is characterized by preoccupation with perceived appearance flaws.
  • Preliminary research indicates visual information processing abnormalities in BDD.
  • The face inversion effect, where inverted faces are processed less efficiently, is a key indicator of visual processing strategies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare global and local visual processing between individuals with BDD and healthy controls.
  • To investigate the face inversion effect in BDD subjects under varying stimulus durations.

Main Methods:

  • Eighteen medication-free BDD subjects and 17 healthy controls participated.
  • A face recognition task involving upright and inverted faces presented for short (500 ms) or long (5000 ms) durations was used.
  • Response times and accuracy rates were analyzed using mixed-effects models.

Main Results:

  • The face inversion effect on response time was significantly smaller in BDD subjects compared to controls for long-duration stimuli.
  • No significant differences in the inversion effect were observed between groups for short-duration stimuli or for accuracy rates at either duration.

Conclusions:

  • BDD subjects may exhibit a greater reliance on detail-oriented processing for faces presented over longer durations.
  • Normal configural and holistic processing appears to be engaged by both groups during brief visual presentations.
  • Altered visual processing in BDD could contribute to distorted self-perception and perception of others' appearances.