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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Oct 30.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Sci. 2006 Jan;17(1):12–16. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2005.01658.x

TABLE 1.

Mean Accuracy and Correct-Response Latency for Each Task in the Face and Character Conditions

Accuracy (%) Correct latency (ms)
Task Face condition Character condition Face condition Character condition
1: Real-face or real-character
Upright 93.8 (2.5) 84.4 (3.0) 1,792.6 (263.2) 3,756.6 (167.1)
Inverted 90.3 (3.7) 85.2 (2.7) 1,993.9 (308.1) 3,821.4 (160.7)
2: Schematic-face or nonsense-character
Upright 83.0 (3.3) 93.4 (2.1) 1,889.2 (200.5) 2,545.5 (160.3)
Inverted 85.8 (2.4) 93.7 (2.2) 2,009.3 (173.3) 2,522.3 (170.8)
3: Ambiguous-figure
Upright 91.3 (1.9) 95.8 (1.7) 1,786.5 (250.5) 2,100.3 (142.5)
Inverted 89.4 (2.8) 96.9 (1.4) 1,890.9 (264.4) 2,119.4 (144.8)

Note. Standard errors are in parentheses.