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Trading faces

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By demonstrating that adaptation to a particular face can bias the subsequent perception of familiar faces, a new study supports the prototype theory of face recognition. These results also suggest that the prototype face is formed by averaging and can change with experience.

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Figure 1: Cartoon of a multi-dimensional face space.

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Figure 2: Adaptation shifts subsequent face perception.

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