What happens to our representation of identity as familiar faces age? Evidence from priming and identity aftereffects.
Matching identity in images of unfamiliar faces is error prone, but we can easily recognize highly variable images of familiar faces – even images taken decades apart. Recent theoretical development based on computational modelling can account for how we recognize extremely variable instances of the...
| Published in: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 113; no. 3; pp. 677 - 696 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2022
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