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Lecturers' faces fatigue their students: face identity aftereffects for dynamic and static faces

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posted on 2023-06-08, 21:38 authored by Sarah Laurence, Graham Hole, Peter J Hills
Face adaptation has been used as a tool to probe our representations for facial identity. It has also been claimed to play a functional role in face processing, perhaps calibrating the visual system towards encountered faces. However, for this to be so, face aftereffects must be observable following adaptation to ecologically valid moving stimuli, not just after prolonged viewing of static images. We adapted our participants to videos, static image sequences or single images of the faces of lecturers who were personally familiar to them. All three stimulus types produced significant, and equivalent, face identity aftereffects, demonstrating that aftereffects are not confined to static images but can occur after exposure to more naturalistic stimuli. It is also further evidence against explanations of face adaptation effects solely in terms of low-level visual processing.

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  • Published

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  • Published version

Journal

Visual Cognition

ISSN

1350-6285

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Issue

8

Volume

22

Page range

1072-1083

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  • Psychology Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2015-07-15

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2015-07-15

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