Authors
Claus-Christian Carbon, Tilo Strobach, Stephen RH Langton, Géza Harsányi, Helmut Leder, Gyula Kovács
Publication date
2007/12
Journal
Memory & Cognition
Volume
35
Pages
1966-1976
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Description
A central problem of face identification is forming stable representations from entities that vary—both in a rigid and nonrigid manner—over time, under different viewing conditions, and with altering appearances. Three experiments investigated the underlying mechanism that is more flexible than has often been supposed. The experiments used highly familiar faces that were first inspected as configurally manipulated versions. When participants had to select the veridical version (known from TV/media/movies) out of a series of gradually altered versions, their selections were biased toward the previously inspected manipulated versions. This adaptation effect (face identity aftereffect, Leopold, Rhodes, Müller, & Jeffery, 2005) was demonstrated even for a delay of 24h between inspection and test phase. Moreover, the inspection of a specific image version of a famous person not only changed the veridicality …
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