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Thompson's Margaret Thatcher illusion: when inversion fails.

S S Rakover
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It is argued that the whole face is more dominant than the individual features. In the case of a jumbled face the external pattern is dominant when a face is upright, whereas the internal pattern is dominant when a face is inverted.

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S S Rakover. 1999. Thompson's Margaret Thatcher illusion: when inversion fails.. https://doi.org/10.1068/p2774

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