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We are so very grateful to Claudio for his willingness to participate in this study and all the time he has given to us. It has been an absolute pleasure to work with Claudio.
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We conclude than both evolved orientation specific mechanisms and experience contribute to the face inversion effect. Claudio's case is extraordinary in that it provides an opportunity to examine the effect of a lifetime of seeing the visual world from a different perspective.
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In a third type of tasks (with 'Thatcherized' faces), Claudio performed better with upright faces (mismatched to his own face orientation)
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We tested Claudio on face detection (is there a face or not?) and face perception (identify matching) tasks. Controls were much better with upright faces for all tasks. In contrast, Claudio performed similarly with upright and inverted faces in most detection and perception tasks.
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We tested Claudio, a man with a congenital joint disorder causing his head to be rotated back. As a result, Claudio has long life experience of seeing faces reversed in orientation to his own face.

A purely evolved account suggests that the FIE results from evolved orientation specific mechanisms tailored to upright faces
A purely experiential account suggests that the FIE results from our far greater exposure with upright faces since birth
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We looked at the origins of the face inversion effect (FIE), which is our ability to perceive upright faces much better than upside down faces 1/n