TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schwiedrzik, Caspar Martin
A1  - Melloni, Lucia
A1  - Schurger, Aaron
T1  - Mooney face stimuli for visual perception research
T2  - PLoS one
N2  - In 1957, Craig Mooney published a set of human face stimuli to study perceptual closure: the formation of a coherent percept on the basis of minimal visual information. Images of this type, now known as “Mooney faces”, are widely used in cognitive psychology and neuroscience because they offer a means of inducing variable perception with constant visuo-spatial characteristics (they are often not perceived as faces if viewed upside down). Mooney’s original set of 40 stimuli has been employed in several studies. However, it is often necessary to use a much larger stimulus set. We created a new set of over 500 Mooney faces and tested them on a cohort of human observers. We present the results of our tests here, and make the stimuli freely available via the internet. Our test results can be used to select subsets of the stimuli that are most suited for a given experimental purpose.
KW  - Face recognition
KW  - Reaction time
KW  - Vision
KW  - Face
KW  - Perception
KW  - Sensory perception
KW  - Cognitive psychology
KW  - Internet
KW  - Mooney faces
KW  - perceptual closure
KW  - face perception
KW  - face inversion
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/47024
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-470246
SN  - 1932-6203
N1  - Copyright: © 2018 Schwiedrzik et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
VL  - 13
IS  - (7): e0200106
SP  - 1
EP  - 11
PB  - PLoS
CY  - Lawrence, Kan.
ER  -