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Interestingly, GG also showed the same pattern of eye gaze fixations as described for PS above (fixations on the mouth or eye, while normal observers fixate in the centre of the face). In parallel to the gaze-contingency study with PS, we also used the mask/window stimulation paradigm in an experiment with normal observers, testing the hypothesis that the inversion effect (http://www.nefy.ucl.ac.be/facecatlab/resProject/FaceInversion.htm) would be modulated by this manipulation. Specifically, in line with the perceptual field hypothesis (Rossion, 2008; 2009, Acta Psychologica) we predicted: A decrease of the face inversion effect in the window condition (forcing people to process the face feature by feature) An increase of the face inversion effect in the mask condition (promoting holistic processing by preventing the reliance on a fixated feature) This study was performed only in normal observers (Van Belle et al., 2010, JOV). 6
The data corresponded to the predictions (Van Belle et al., 2010, Journal of Vision), showing that contrary to the statement made at the beginning of this manuscript, eye movements can be diagnostic about the nature of face perception using face inversion. Most importantly, these observations directly support the view that the face inversion effect is due to a loss of holistic face perception, as if observers would have their perceptual field reduced when dealing with inverted faces. Given the interest of the method, the research program on eye movements and face perception goes on in our lab, with studies performed primarily by Goedele van Belle, Meike Ramon (contrasting familiar and unfamiliar face perception), and in collaboration with Philippe Lefèvre at UCLouvain. BIBLIOGRAPHY (lab papers on this topic) and main finding(s) of each paper All papers available as pdfs here: http://www.nefy.ucl.ac.be/Face_Categorisation_Lab.htm Van Belle, G., Busigny, T., Lefèvre, P., Joubert, S., Felician, O., Gentile, F., Rossion, B. (2011). Impairment of holistic face percetion following right occipito-temporal damage in prosopagnosia: converging evidence from gaze-contingency. Neuropsychologia, 49, 3145-3150. In this paper, we show that the pure case of prosopagnosia GG, who has unilateral right hemispheric damage (lingual, parahippocampal and medial part of the fusiform gyrus) also presents with a relatively larger impairment in recognizing faces when preventing him from seeing the central feature of the face (contingent mask) than when restricting his perception to one feature at a time (contingent-window). This is the same pattern of performance as patient PS (Van Belle et al., 2010, paper below), despite almost no overlap between their brain damage. 7
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