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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Face perception benefits from both low-level features and top-down expectations.
  • Dissociating top-down and bottom-up influences on face perception is challenging due to mandatory face awareness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the role of face awareness in object detection using the face pareidolia phenomenon.
  • To determine if perceiving an object as a face enhances detection performance.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized face pareidolia, where individuals perceive faces in non-face stimuli.
  • Compared object detection sensitivity for face targets versus identical non-face targets (triangles).
  • Assessed detection performance across different stimulus eccentricities and orientations.

Main Results:

  • Participants showed higher detection sensitivity when recognizing a stimulus as a face compared to a non-face object.
  • This enhancement in detection was consistent regardless of stimulus location or orientation.
  • Face awareness significantly improved object detection performance.

Conclusions:

  • Perceiving an object as a face facilitates object detection through top-down modulation.
  • Face awareness is a key factor contributing to the advantages observed in face perception.
  • The study provides evidence for the influence of top-down processing in visual perception.