Familiarity facilitates feature-based face processing.

Recognition of personally familiar faces is remarkably efficient, effortless and robust. We asked if feature-based face processing facilitates detection of familiar faces by testing the effect of face inversion on a visual search task for familiar and unfamiliar faces. Because face inversion disrupt...

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Main Authors: Matteo Visconti di Oleggio Castello, Kelsey G Wheeler, Carlo Cipolli, M Ida Gobbini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5459439?pdf=render