Human Face Responses in the Rorschach Test

The present study explores the human face responses in the Rorschach test. We suggest that, although the experience of the human face is essential to our psychological development and to our interaction with the world, this category of responses has always been considered as one of the partial human contents, together with responses such as an eye or a finger. The study provides background information about recent research findings concerning face perception and the role of face perception in early psychological development and suggests that Rorschach face responses may be better distinguished from other human detail contents and may have a special clinical significance. In order to explore face responses in the Rorschach, these responses were analyzed in a reference sample of nonpatients (n = 247) conducted in France as part of a of the French-language normative project. Descriptive data on face responses according to the Comprehensive System are provided as well as an analysis of their perceptual characteristics. In addition, a subgroup of nonpatients giving a relatively high number of face responses was found to differ from other nonpatients on several self and interpersonal perception variables. The perceptual features and the possible clinical significance of face responses on the Rorschach are discussed with an emphasis on the possible merit of distinguishing the face category from the other human content details.

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The face perception system becomes species-specific at 3 months: An eye-tracking study

International Journal of Behavioral Development ◽

10.1177/0165025412465362 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 37 (2) ◽

pp. 95-99 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Elisa Di Giorgio ◽

David Méary ◽

Olivier Pascalis ◽

Francesca Simion

Keyword(s):

Eye Tracking ◽

Face Perception ◽

Visual Experience ◽

Specific Class ◽

Perception System ◽

The Face ◽

Perceptual Characteristics ◽

Species Specific ◽

Species Preferences ◽

Human Faces

The current study aimed at investigating own- vs. other-species preferences in 3-month-old infants. The infants’ eye movements were recorded during a visual preference paradigm to assess whether they show a preference for own-species faces when contrasted with other-species faces. Human and monkey faces, equated for all low-level perceptual characteristics, were used. Our results demonstrated that 3-month-old infants preferred the human face, suggesting that the face perception system becomes species-specific after 3 months of visual experience with a specific class of faces. The eye tracking results are also showing that fixations were more focused on the eye area of human faces, supporting the notion of their importance in holding visual attention.

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Functional asymmetry in the human face: Perception of health in the left and right sides of the face

Laterality Asymmetries of Body Brain and Cognition ◽

10.1080/713754415 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 225-231 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

V.A. Reis ◽

D.W. Zaidel

Keyword(s):

Face Perception ◽

Functional Asymmetry ◽

Human Face ◽

The Face ◽

Left And Right ◽

Perception Of Health

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The specificity of interpersonal perception in terms of presentation of the image of a whole face and a «split face» on the example of perception of pictorial portraits

Experimental Psychology (Russia) ◽

10.17759/exppsy.2015080409 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 120-133 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

E.A. Lupenko

Keyword(s):

Experimental Data ◽

Interpersonal Perception ◽

Stimulus Material ◽

Psychological Characteristics ◽

Human Face ◽

The Face ◽

Left And Right ◽

The Right ◽

Split Face

The article presents a study of the specificity of perception of expression of the whole and fragmented (divided into left and right half) face made on the example of the perception of pictorial portraits. The data obtained in the study are fully consistent with previously obtained results of the similar study of perception of facsimiles (Artemtseva, 2003, Barabanschikov, Boldyrev, 2007; Barabanschikov, Zhegallo, 2013). The right and the left side of the face and the image of a whole face have their own expressive potential, which is reflected in the use by observer of different individual psychological characteristics in their description. The expression of a whole face often has a contradictory character with overly intensified emotions and is not a simple sum of the characteristics that are used in the description of the right and left halves of the face. Thus, perception of expression of a whole face and of a “split face” brings up several different patterns of personality. The similarity of the experimental data, obtained at different stimulus material (portraits and images), speaks about the invariance of perception of human face, regardless of the method of its representation.

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Functional asymmetry in the human face: Perception of health in the left and right sides of the face

Laterality Asymmetries of Body Brain and Cognition ◽

10.1080/13576500143000005 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 225-231 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

V.A. Reis ◽

D.W. Zaidel

Keyword(s):

Face Perception ◽

Functional Asymmetry ◽

Human Face ◽

The Face ◽

Left And Right ◽

Perception Of Health

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Accuracy of the interpersonal perception by human face in a communicative situation

Experimental Psychology (Russia) ◽

10.17759/exppsy.2019120201 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 8-15

Author(s):

K.I. Ananyeva ◽

N.O. Tovuu

Keyword(s):

Personal Characteristics ◽

Morphological Type ◽

Interpersonal Perception ◽

Human Face ◽

Facial Image ◽

Joint Decision ◽

Two Samples ◽

Region Of Residence ◽

The Face ◽

Study Participants

We studied the adequacy of the assessment of personal characteristics in the perception of people of different races (Caucasoid and Mongoloid) in situations of individual and joint decision making. The study involved two samples of subjects, residents of Moscow and Kyzyl (Republic of Tyva). The adequacy of assessing the personal characteristics of the sitters was analyzed using the values received from the scales of the “Personal Differential” questionnaire. The grouping variables were the region of residence of study participants and the morphological type of the face of the sitter. It is shown that the adequacy of assessing personality based on face perception is selective, and the possibility of discussing one’s own impressions with a partner can be both a resource and a hindrance to the adequacy of judgments about a personality based on a facial image.

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Conventions and temporal differences in painted faces: A study of posture and color distribution

Electronic Imaging ◽

10.2352/issn.2470-1173.2020.11.hvei-267 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2020 (11) ◽

pp. 267-1-267-8

Author(s):

Mitchell J.P. van Zuijlen ◽

Sylvia C. Pont ◽

Maarten W.A. Wijntjes

Keyword(s):

Scientific Community ◽

Human Face ◽

Art Galleries ◽

Art Collections ◽

Color Distribution ◽

Scientific Domain ◽

The Face ◽

And Gender ◽

Changes Over Time ◽

Over Time

The human face is a popular motif in art and depictions of faces can be found throughout history in nearly every culture. Artists have mastered the depiction of faces after employing careful experimentation using the relatively limited means of paints and oils. Many of the results of these experimentations are now available to the scientific domain due to the digitization of large art collections. In this paper we study the depiction of the face throughout history. We used an automated facial detection network to detect a set of 11,659 faces in 15,534 predominately western artworks, from 6 international, digitized art galleries. We analyzed the pose and color of these faces and related those to changes over time and gender differences. We find a number of previously known conventions, such as the convention of depicting the left cheek for females and vice versa for males, as well as unknown conventions, such as the convention of females to be depicted looking slightly down. Our set of faces will be released to the scientific community for further study.

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Real Time Person Recognition and Attendance Marking Using Holistic Based Approach

International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering ◽

10.23956/ijarcsse/v7i7/0220 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (7) ◽

pp. 302

Author(s):

Reshma P ◽

Muneer VK ◽

Muhammed Ilyas P

Keyword(s):

Face Recognition ◽

Real Time ◽

High Accuracy ◽

Efficient Technique ◽

Human Face ◽

Traditional Methods ◽

Person Recognition ◽

The Face

Face recognition is a challenging task for the researches. It is very useful for personal verification and recognition and also it is very difficult to implement due to all different situation that a human face can be found. This system makes use of the face recognition approach for the computerized attendance marking of students or employees in the room environment without lectures intervention or the employee. This system is very efficient and requires very less maintenance compared to the traditional methods. Among existing methods PCA is the most efficient technique. In this project Holistic based approach is adapted. The system is implemented using MATLAB and provides high accuracy.

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The COVID-19 pandemic masks the way people perceive faces

Scientific Reports ◽

10.1038/s41598-020-78986-9 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Erez Freud ◽

Andreja Stajduhar ◽

R. Shayna Rosenbaum ◽

Galia Avidan ◽

Tzvi Ganel

Keyword(s):

Social Interactions ◽

Face Perception ◽

Face Processing ◽

Qualitative Change ◽

Daily Activities ◽

Human Face ◽

Human Face Recognition ◽

Processing Abilities ◽

Partially Occluded ◽

The Way

AbstractThe unprecedented efforts to minimize the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic introduce a new arena for human face recognition in which faces are partially occluded with masks. Here, we tested the extent to which face masks change the way faces are perceived. To this end, we evaluated face processing abilities for masked and unmasked faces in a large online sample of adult observers (n = 496) using an adapted version of the Cambridge Face Memory Test, a validated measure of face perception abilities in humans. As expected, a substantial decrease in performance was found for masked faces. Importantly, the inclusion of masks also led to a qualitative change in the way masked faces are perceived. In particular, holistic processing, the hallmark of face perception, was disrupted for faces with masks, as suggested by a reduced inversion effect. Similar changes were found whether masks were included during the study or the test phases of the experiment. Together, we provide novel evidence for quantitative and qualitative alterations in the processing of masked faces that could have significant effects on daily activities and social interactions.

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