PMID- 24520313
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20141013
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 1932-6203 (Electronic)
IS  - 1932-6203 (Linking)
VI  - 9
IP  - 2
DP  - 2014
TI  - The Muslim headscarf and face perception: "they all look the same, don't they?".
PG  - e84754
LID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0084754 [doi]
LID - e84754
AB  - 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.
FAU - Toseeb, Umar
AU  - Toseeb U
AD  - Bradford School of Optometry & Vision Science, University of Bradford, Bradford, 
      United Kingdom ; Division of Psychology, University of Bradford, Bradford, United 
      Kingdom.
FAU - Bryant, Eleanor J
AU  - Bryant EJ
AD  - Division of Psychology, University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom.
FAU - Keeble, David R T
AU  - Keeble DR
AD  - Bradford School of Optometry & Vision Science, University of Bradford, Bradford, 
      United Kingdom ; Division of Psychology, University of Bradford, Bradford, United 
      Kingdom.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20140210
PL  - United States
TA  - PLoS One
JT  - PloS one
JID - 101285081
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - *Clothing
MH  - *Face
MH  - Female
MH  - Hair
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Islam
MH  - Male
MH  - Photic Stimulation
MH  - Task Performance and Analysis
MH  - Visual Perception/*physiology
MH  - Young Adult
PMC - PMC3919697
COIS- Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
EDAT- 2014/02/13 06:00
MHDA- 2014/10/14 06:00
PMCR- 2014/02/10
CRDT- 2014/02/13 06:00
PHST- 2012/08/07 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2013/11/26 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2014/02/13 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/02/13 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/10/14 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2014/02/10 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - PONE-D-12-23918 [pii]
AID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0084754 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - PLoS One. 2014 Feb 10;9(2):e84754. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084754. eCollection 
      2014.