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Adaptation to natural facial categories

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  • Michael A. Webster

    (University of Nevada)

  • Daniel Kaping

    (University of Nevada)

  • Yoko Mizokami

    (University of Nevada)

  • Paul Duhamel

    (University of Nevada)

Abstract

Face perception is fundamentally important for judging the characteristics of individuals, such as identification of their gender, age, ethnicity or expression. We asked how the perception of these characteristics is influenced by the set of faces that observers are exposed to. Previous studies have shown that the appearance of a face can be biased strongly after viewing an altered image of the face, and have suggested that these after-effects reflect response changes in the neural mechanisms underlying object or face perception1,2,3,4,5. Here we show that these adaptation effects are pronounced for natural variations in faces and for natural categorical judgements about faces. This suggests that adaptation may routinely influence face perception in normal viewing, and could have an important role in calibrating properties of face perception according to the subset of faces populating an individual's environment.

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  • Michael A. Webster & Daniel Kaping & Yoko Mizokami & Paul Duhamel, 2004. "Adaptation to natural facial categories," Nature, Nature, vol. 428(6982), pages 557-561, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:428:y:2004:i:6982:d:10.1038_nature02420
    DOI: 10.1038/nature02420
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    1. Verena G Skuk & Stefan R Schweinberger, 2013. "Adaptation Aftereffects in Vocal Emotion Perception Elicited by Expressive Faces and Voices," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(11), pages 1-1, November.
    2. Alexander Toet & Martijn Bijlsma & Anne-Marie Brouwer, 2017. "Stress Response and Facial Trustworthiness Judgments in Civilians and Military," SAGE Open, , vol. 7(3), pages 21582440177, August.
    3. Amir Homayoun Javadi & Natalie Wee, 2012. "Cross-Category Adaptation: Objects Produce Gender Adaptation in the Perception of Faces," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 7(9), pages 1-8, September.
    4. Marianne Latinus & Pascal Belin, 2012. "Perceptual Auditory Aftereffects on Voice Identity Using Brief Vowel Stimuli," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 7(7), pages 1-7, July.
    5. Peter Claes & Denise K Liberton & Katleen Daniels & Kerri Matthes Rosana & Ellen E Quillen & Laurel N Pearson & Brian McEvoy & Marc Bauchet & Arslan A Zaidi & Wei Yao & Hua Tang & Gregory S Barsh & De, 2014. "Modeling 3D Facial Shape from DNA," PLOS Genetics, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(3), pages 1-14, March.
    6. Chengwen Luo & Qingyun Wang & Philippe G Schyns & Frederick A A Kingdom & Hong Xu, 2015. "Facial Expression Aftereffect Revealed by Adaption to Emotion-Invisible Dynamic Bubbled Faces," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(12), pages 1-16, December.
    7. Achim Elfering & Simone Grebner, 2010. "A Smile is Just a Smile: But Only for Men. Sex Differences in Meaning of Faces Scales," Journal of Happiness Studies, Springer, vol. 11(2), pages 179-191, April.
    8. Christian Walther & Stefan R Schweinberger & Gyula Kovács, 2013. "Adaptor Identity Modulates Adaptation Effects in Familiar Face Identification and Their Neural Correlates," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(8), pages 1-12, August.

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