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Linda Jeffery1, Gillian Rhodes, Tom Busey

  • 1School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia. linda@psy.uwa.edu.au

Psychological Science
|June 15, 2006
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Face neurons in the brain code facial shape in a view-specific manner. This means how we perceive a face

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Vision Science

Background:

  • The human brain processes facial information, with neurons in the cortex showing selectivity for specific viewpoints.
  • It is not fully understood if this view specificity extends to the coding of facial shape itself.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether the coding of face shape in the brain is view-specific.
  • To determine if adaptation to distorted faces at one viewpoint affects perception at other viewpoints.

Main Methods:

  • Inducing figural face aftereffects by adapting participants to distorted faces at a specific viewpoint (3/4 left).
  • Testing the generalization of these aftereffects to different facial viewpoints (front and 3/4 right).
  • Controlling for low-level adaptation by testing aftereffects across changes in face size.

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Main Results:

  • Strong aftereffects were observed at the adapting viewpoint.
  • Aftereffects were significantly reduced for faces presented at different viewpoints, including mirror images.
  • The results were consistent even when face size changed between adaptation and testing.

Conclusions:

  • Face shape is coded in a view-specific manner by neurons in the brain.
  • The limited transfer of aftereffects across different views, especially mirror images, provides strong evidence for view-specific face shape coding.
  • The findings rule out explanations based on low-level visual adaptation.