To pinpoint how people recognize such images, Aviezer and his colleagues showed different versions of the pictures to three groups of participants: 1) the full picture with the face and body; 2) the body with the face removed; and 3) the face with the body removed. Remarkably, participants could easily tell apart the losers from winners when they rated the full picture or the body alone, but they were at chance level when rating the face alone.
MORE: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121129143314.htm
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Men and Women Explore the Visual World Differently
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121130222243.htm
