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Upright Imaging of Drosophila Embryos
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2010
Here we present a mounting protocol for stained Drosophila embryos in an upright position that allows imaging of cross-sections using Confocal microscopy.
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Upright Imaging of Drosophila Egg Chambers
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2015
The upright imaging method described in this protocol allows for the detailed visualization of the poles of a developing Drosophila melanogaster egg. This end-on view provides a new perspective into the arrangements and morphologies of multiple cell types in the follicular epithelium.
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Using Ex Vivo Upright Droplet Cultures of Whole Fetal Organs to Study Developmental Processes during Mouse Organogenesis
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2015
The ex vivo upright droplet culture is an alternative to current in vitro and in vivo experimental techniques. This protocol is easy to perform and requires smaller amounts of reagent, while permitting the ability to manipulate and study fetal vascularization, morphogenesis, and organogenesis.
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Preparation of Murine Submandibular Salivary Gland for Upright Intravital Microscopy
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2018
We describe a protocol to surgically expose and stabilize the murine submandibular salivary gland for intravital imaging using upright intravital microscopy. This protocol is easily adaptable to other exocrine glands of the head and neck region of mice and other small rodents.
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The Inverted-face Effect
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2023
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University In perception, it is often the case that the ability to recognize and interpret complex stimuli feels effortless but actually demands complicated and intensive processing. This is because processing is specialized and automated for certain types of very important stimuli. Among the best examples of this phenomenon is face processing. People do not try to detect and recognize faces. It just seems to happen. However, detecting faces...
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The visual system evaluates relationships among the eyes, nose, and mouth as an organized whole, rather than treating each feature as an independent unit. This configural processing allows the arrangement and spacing of facial elements to contribute to perception. Consequently, research on upright faces can examine how integrated visual structure supports efficient recognition and interpretation.
Inversion disrupts the normal relationships among facial features, making the integrated arrangement harder to process. Comparing upright and upside-down presentations therefore reveals whether performance depends on configural information rather than isolated eyes, noses, or mouths. This contrast provides a way to study the specialized perceptual processes that support typical face recognition.
Experience helps shape the perceptual processes used for recognizing familiar facial arrangements. The strong contrast between upright and inverted viewing suggests that typical orientation is important to the visual system's learned or specialized response to faces. In psychology, this relationship allows researchers to investigate how experience contributes to efficient recognition and social perception.
A basic comparison presents faces in their usual vertical orientation and then presents comparable faces upside down, allowing researchers to examine differences in recognition or perception. The critical outcome is whether performance changes when configural relationships become harder to use. This design helps isolate orientation-sensitive processing from the contribution of individual facial features.
Research can use upright faces to examine face recognition, identity perception, and emotional expression. Because facial perception contributes to social cognition, these studies also help clarify how people extract socially meaningful information from visual patterns. Comparing responses across orientations can indicate whether a particular ability relies on integrated facial structure or more independent feature analysis.
They provide a focused visual context for examining how the mind and brain support socially relevant perception. Studies can relate efficient processing of facial configuration to recognition of identity and emotional expression, while orientation comparisons reveal when that processing is disrupted. This makes upright-face research useful for connecting visual recognition with broader mechanisms of social cognition.