The Muslim headscarf and face perception: "they all look the same, don't they?".

The headscarf conceals hair and other external features of a head (such as the ears). It therefore may have implications for the way in which such faces are perceived. Images of faces with hair (H) or alternatively, covered by a headscarf (HS) were used in three experiments. In Experiment 1 particip...

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Autores principales: Umar Toseeb, Eleanor J Bryant, David R T Keeble
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:020f5fb0606b4fe68c60b2a8dfd83a6d2021-11-18T08:33:15ZThe Muslim headscarf and face perception: "they all look the same, don't they?".1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0084754https://doaj.org/article/020f5fb0606b4fe68c60b2a8dfd83a6d2014-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24520313/pdf/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203The headscarf conceals hair and other external features of a head (such as the ears). It therefore may have implications for the way in which such faces are perceived. Images of faces with hair (H) or alternatively, covered by a headscarf (HS) were used in three experiments. In Experiment 1 participants saw both H and HS faces in a yes/no recognition task in which the external features either remained the same between learning and test (Same) or switched (Switch). Performance was similar for H and HS faces in both the Same and Switch condition, but in the Switch condition it dropped substantially compared to the Same condition. This implies that the mere presence of the headscarf does not reduce performance, rather, the change between the type of external feature (hair or headscarf) causes the drop in performance. In Experiment 2, which used eye-tracking methodology, it was found that almost all fixations were to internal regions, and that there was no difference in the proportion of fixations to external features between the Same and Switch conditions, implying that the headscarf influenced processing by virtue of extrafoveal viewing. In Experiment 3, similarity ratings of the internal features of pairs of HS faces were higher than pairs of H faces, confirming that the internal and external features of a face are perceived as a whole rather than as separate components.Umar ToseebEleanor J BryantDavid R T KeeblePublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 2, p e84754 (2014)
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Umar Toseeb
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The Muslim headscarf and face perception: "they all look the same, don't they?".
description The headscarf conceals hair and other external features of a head (such as the ears). It therefore may have implications for the way in which such faces are perceived. Images of faces with hair (H) or alternatively, covered by a headscarf (HS) were used in three experiments. In Experiment 1 participants saw both H and HS faces in a yes/no recognition task in which the external features either remained the same between learning and test (Same) or switched (Switch). Performance was similar for H and HS faces in both the Same and Switch condition, but in the Switch condition it dropped substantially compared to the Same condition. This implies that the mere presence of the headscarf does not reduce performance, rather, the change between the type of external feature (hair or headscarf) causes the drop in performance. In Experiment 2, which used eye-tracking methodology, it was found that almost all fixations were to internal regions, and that there was no difference in the proportion of fixations to external features between the Same and Switch conditions, implying that the headscarf influenced processing by virtue of extrafoveal viewing. In Experiment 3, similarity ratings of the internal features of pairs of HS faces were higher than pairs of H faces, confirming that the internal and external features of a face are perceived as a whole rather than as separate components.
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title The Muslim headscarf and face perception: "they all look the same, don't they?".
title_short The Muslim headscarf and face perception: "they all look the same, don't they?".
title_full The Muslim headscarf and face perception: "they all look the same, don't they?".
title_fullStr The Muslim headscarf and face perception: "they all look the same, don't they?".
title_full_unstemmed The Muslim headscarf and face perception: "they all look the same, don't they?".
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