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Janice E Murray¹, Madeline Judge, Yan Chen

¹Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. jmur@psy.otago.ac.nz

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The figural face aftereffect, which distorts face perception, can occur without spatial attention. This suggests that the brain processes facial features even when attention is focused elsewhere.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Visual Perception

Background:

The figural face aftereffect demonstrates that the brain adapts to spatial configurations of facial features.
This adaptation influences subsequent perception of normal faces, causing them to appear distorted.

Purpose of the Study:

To determine if spatial attention is necessary for the figural face aftereffect.
To investigate face adaptation under conditions of high attentional load.

Main Methods:

Participants viewed a distorted face while performing a demanding letter-counting task, ignoring the adapting face.
Perceptual normality of morphed faces was assessed before and after adaptation.

Main Results:

A significant figural face aftereffect was observed despite participants ignoring the adapting face.
The effect persisted even with high attentional demands from the concurrent task.

Conclusions:

The figural face aftereffect can be elicited without spatial attention.
Face adaptation mechanisms operate independently of focused spatial attention, even under demanding cognitive loads.