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Recognizing famous faces.
Johnny Cash. Upon boarding an airplane, I turned around, and there he was—the “Man in Black” (truly dressed in black and carrying a black guitar case). I asked for his autograph and, in the absence of a scrap of paper, had him sign my boarding pass only to have that part immediately taken away by the airline clerk. Seeing what was happening, he again signed the little part of the boarding pass ...
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The effects of movement on the recognition of famous faces shown in difficult conditions were investigated. Images were presented as negatives, upside down (inverted), and thresholded. Results indicate that, under all these conditions, moving faces were recognized significantly better than static ones. One possible explanation of this effect could be that a moving sequence contains more static ...
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An important question regarding face aftereffects is whether it is based on face-specific or lower-level mechanisms. One method for addressing this is to explore how adaptation in upright or inverted, photographic positive or negative faces transfers to test stimuli that are either upright or inverted and normal or negated. A series of studies are reported in which this is tested using a typica...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/345379a0