What makes faces special?. Yue, X, Tjan, B S, & Biederman, I Vision Research, 46(22):3802–3811, 2006. ISBN: 0042-6989
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What may be special about faces, compared to non-face objects, is that their neural representation may be fundamentally spatial, e.g., Gabor-like. Subjects matched a sequence of two filtered images, each containing every other combination of spatial frequency and orientation, of faces or non-face 3D blobs, judging whether the person or blob was the same or different. On a match trial, the images were either identical or complementary (containing the remaining spatial frequency and orientation content). Relative to an identical pair of images, a complementary pair of faces, but not blobs, reduced matching accuracy and released fMRI adaptation in the fusiform face area.
@article{yue_what_2006,
	title = {What makes faces special?},
	volume = {46},
	abstract = {What may be special about faces, compared to non-face objects, is that their neural representation may be fundamentally spatial, e.g., Gabor-like. Subjects matched a sequence of two filtered images, each containing every other combination of spatial frequency and orientation, of faces or non-face 3D blobs, judging whether the person or blob was the same or different. On a match trial, the images were either identical or complementary (containing the remaining spatial frequency and orientation content). Relative to an identical pair of images, a complementary pair of faces, but not blobs, reduced matching accuracy and released fMRI adaptation in the fusiform face area.},
	number = {22},
	journal = {Vision Research},
	author = {Yue, X and Tjan, B S and Biederman, I},
	year = {2006},
	pmid = {16938328},
	note = {ISBN: 0042-6989},
	keywords = {*Face, *Recognition (Psychology), Adult, Female, Humans, Judgment, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Models, Psychological, Occipital Lobe/physiology, Orientation, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Photic Stimulation/methods, Space Perception},
	pages = {3802--3811},
}

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