Mooney Face Test

The Mooney Face Test was developed by Craig M. Mooney and his results published in 1957 as “Age in the development of closure ability in children.”[1] In the test, participants are shown low-information two-tone pictures of faces, and are asked to identify features and distinguish between real and "false" faces. It is a test of a concept he called "perceptual closure": the ability to form coherent mental pictures with very little visual information. In a study conducted with 370 participants, an association between performance on the Mooney Face Test and a polymorphism on the RAPGEF5 gene was identified.[2]

References

  1. Mooney, CM (December 1957). "Age in the development of closure ability in children." (PDF). Can J Psychol. 11 (4): 219–26. PMID 13489559.
  2. Verhallen, RJ; Bosten, JM; Goodbourn, PT; Bargary, G; Lawrance-Owen, AJ; Mollon, JD (2014-08-17). "An online version of the Mooney Face Test: phenotypic and genetic associations." 63: 19–25. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.08.011. PMID 25138019.


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