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Triological Society Names Winners of Mosher, Fowler Awards

by Thomas R. Collins • June 8, 2015

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Harris P. Mosher Award

The attention of casual observers looking at the faces of people with facial paralysis deviates from normal patterns, said researchers from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, who reached their conclusions after conducting experiments using eye-tracking technology.

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June 2015
Dr. Ishii

Dr. Ishii

Lisa Ishii, MD, a facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon and associate professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at Johns Hopkins, presented the findings and captured this year’s Mosher Award for Excellence among Triological Society candidate theses on clinical research.

Dr. Ishii’s group has been examining how lay observers view facial deformities for many years, building on the basic concept, established with research in the late 1970s, that most people view “normal” faces with a focus on the “central triangle” of the eyes, nose and mouth. That has proven to be a reliable observation pattern.

“Patients who present to facial plastic surgeons express concerns about how others will view them with their facial deformities,” she said. “This is a concern for patients who have pre-existing deformities. This is a concern for patients who are going to undergo some type of procedure that will lead to a deformity…. Previously, we have had very little data on facial perception of facial deformity—in other words, how do lay people view these faces when they see abnormalities on them?”

Earlier studies have found that attention is diverted from normal patterns to the deformities: Those looking at someone with a lesion on the cheek will deviate from the central triangle and look more at that cheek area, and those looking at the face with a crooked nose will dwell longer on the nose. People can come up with “some idea about the face” after looking at a particular area for as few as 200 milliseconds, Dr. Ishii said.

In their current experiment, Dr. Ishii and her team of researchers turned to how facial paralysis is seen. Sixty casual observers viewed images of paralyzed faces and non-paralyzed faces, both smiling and in repose, but no single observer saw the same person’s face more than once, so they saw each face either smiling or in repose. The images showed faces of people ranging from 18 to 72 years old.

The researchers found that the majority of the attention was focused within the central triangle but that there was increased attention to the mouths of the paralyzed faces. They also found that those viewing paralyzed faces spent more time looking at the non-paralyzed side than the paralyzed side. “These attentional changes can be correlated with changes in perception,” Dr. Ishii said. “When they smile, they’re not perceived as emoting positively. In fact, they’re perceived as emoting negatively because of the distortion of their face. And this helps us to understand the areas to which casual observers are attending when they are making those observations.”

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Filed Under: Features Tagged With: COSM, Fowler, MosherIssue: June 2015

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