Face, Body, and Center of Gravity Mediate Person Detection in Natural Scenes

Autor/inn/en	Bindemann, Markus; Scheepers, Christoph; Ferguson, Heather J.; Burton, A. Mike
Titel	Face, Body, and Center of Gravity Mediate Person Detection in Natural Scenes
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 36 (2010) 6, S.1477-1485 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0096-1523
DOI	10.1037/a0019057
Schlagwörter	Cues; Infants; Social Cognition; Interpersonal Relationship; Interaction; Observation; Human Body; Identification; Attention; Physics; Scientific Concepts; Natural Sciences; Undergraduate Students; Visual Stimuli; United Kingdom; United Kingdom (Glasgow) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stichwort; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Soziale Kognition; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Interaktion; Beobachtung; Menschlicher Körper; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Aufmerksamkeit; Physik; Naturwissenschaften; Großbritannien
Abstract	Person detection is an important prerequisite of social interaction, but is not well understood. Following suggestions that people in the visual field can capture a viewer's attention, this study examines the role of the face and the body for person detection in natural scenes. We observed that viewers tend first to look at the center of a scene, and only then to fixate on a person. When a person's face was rendered invisible in scenes, bodies were detected as quickly as faces without bodies, indicating that both are equally useful for person detection. Detection was optimized when face and body could be seen, but observers preferentially fixated faces, reinforcing the notion of a prominent role for the face in social perception. These findings have implications for claims of attention capture by faces in that they demonstrate a mediating influence of body cues and general scanning principles in natural scenes. (Contains 1 table and 5 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10