Not all face aftereffects are equal

Vision Research
Katherine R Storrs, Derek H Arnold

Abstract

After prolonged exposure to a female face, faces that had previously seemed androgynous are more likely to be judged as male. Similarly, after prolonged exposure to a face with expanded features, faces that had previously seemed normal are more likely to be judged as having contracted features. These facial aftereffects have both been attributed to the impact of adaptation upon a norm-based opponent code, akin to low-level analyses of colour. While a good deal of evidence is consistent with this, some recent data is contradictory, motivating a more rigorous test. In behaviourally matched tasks we compared the characteristics of aftereffects generated by adapting to colour, to expanded or contracted faces, and to male or female faces. In our experiments opponent coding predicted that the appearance of the adapting image should change and that adaptation should induce symmetrical shifts of two category boundaries. This combination of predictions was firmly supported for colour adaptation, somewhat supported for facial distortion aftereffects, but not supported for facial gender aftereffects. Interestingly, the two face aftereffects we tested generated discrepant patterns of response shifts. Our data suggest that superficially sim...Continue Reading

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Feb 10, 2016·Annual Review of Vision Science·Michael A Webster
Mar 10, 2015·Frontiers in Psychology·Katherine R Storrs
Jul 6, 2016·Frontiers in Psychology·David A Ross, Thomas J Palmeri
Nov 7, 2015·Cognitive Psychology·Kielan YarrowDerek H Arnold
Oct 19, 2016·Perception·Sophie L CroninDerek H Arnold
Sep 19, 2019·Journal of Vision·Jennifer Day, Nicolas Davidenko
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Aug 5, 2021·Proceedings. Biological Sciences·Derek H ArnoldAlan Johnston

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