THE STRUCTURE OF VISUAL IMPRESSIONS OF HUMAN FACE-LIKENESS

The purpose is to find the structure of visual impressions of human face-likeness. The stimuli were 15 outline figures of human faces. Lingoes' Multiple Scalogram Analysis and its modified type were applied to the 0-1 data of face-likeness obtained from 147 student subjects. Results were; (a) a monotonic relationship was seen between the goodness of the impression of face-likeness and the number of components in the human outline face figures,...