Visual adaptation to thin and fat bodies transfers across identity

D Hummel, AK Rudolf, KH Untch, R Grabhorn… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Visual perception is highly variable and can be influenced by the surrounding world.
Previous research has revealed that body perception can be biased due to adaptation to …

Body-shape adaptation cannot be explained by adaptation to narrow and wide rectangles

D Hummel, R Grabhorn, HM Mohr - Perception, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Visual adaptation to certain body shapes alters visual perception of subsequently presented
pictures of bodies. We investigated whether these effects can be explained by adaptation to …

Body size adaptation alters perception of test stimuli, not internal body image

KB Ambroziak, E Azañón, MR Longo - Frontiers in psychology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Recent studies have reported that adaptation to extreme body types produces aftereffects on
judgments of body normality and attractiveness, and also judgments of the size and shape of …

Perceptual aftereffects of adiposity transfer from hands to whole bodies

KB Ambroziak, MA Bofill, E Azañón… - Experimental Brain …, 2023 - Springer
Adaptation aftereffects for features such as identity and gender have been shown to transfer
between faces and bodies, and faces and body parts, ie hands. However, no studies have …

Body image distortion and exposure to extreme body types: contingent adaptation and cross adaptation for self and other

KR Brooks, JM Mond, RJ Stevenson… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Body size misperception is common amongst the general public and is a core component of
eating disorders and related conditions. While perennial media exposure to the “thin ideal” …

Altered visual adaptation to body shape in eating disorders: implications for body image distortion

HM Mohr, C Rickmeyer, D Hummel, M Ernst… - …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Previous research has shown that after adapting to a thin body, healthy participants (HP)
perceive pictures of their own bodies as being fatter and vice versa. This aftereffect might …

Visual attention mediates the relationship between body satisfaction and susceptibility to the body size adaptation effect

ID Stephen, D Sturman, RJ Stevenson, J Mond… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Body size misperception–the belief that one is larger or smaller than reality–affects a large
and growing segment of the population. Recently, studies have shown that exposure to …

Are attitudinal and perceptual body image the same or different? Evidence from high-level adaptation

KK Cornelissen, H Widdrington, K McCarty, TV Pollet… - Body image, 2019 - Elsevier
We used a high-level adaptation paradigm to distinguish between two hypotheses:(1)
perceptual and attitudinal body image measurements reflect conceptually different …

No effect of featural attention on body size aftereffects

ID Stephen, C Bickersteth, J Mond… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Prolonged exposure to images of narrow bodies has been shown to induce a perceptual
aftereffect, such that observers' point of subjective normality (PSN) for bodies shifts toward …

The thin white line: adaptation suggests a common neural mechanism for judgments of asian and caucasian body size

L Gould-Fensom, CBY Tan, KR Brooks, J Mond… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Visual adaptation has been proposed as a mechanism linking viewing images of thin
women's bodies with body size and shape misperception (BSSM). Non-Caucasian …