De Fockert, J. W. and Wolfenstein, Cecilia. 2009. Rapid extraction of mean identity from sets of faces. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62(9), pp. 1716-1722. ISSN 1747-0218 [Article]

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Recent evidence suggests that the notion that the visual system can rapidly extract summary statistics from complex scenes extends to representing sets of faces in terms of mean emotion or gender. Here we show that observers can also extract a mean identity from a set of faces with different identities. Observers first saw a set of four faces with different identities and were subsequently asked whether or not a single test face had been present in the preceding set. They were significantly more likely to respond that the test face had been present in the set if it was the morphed mean of all four set faces than when it was an actual set member. This finding suggests that representations based on summary statistics are available for face identity.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1080/17470210902811249
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Psychology
Dates:	Date Event 2009 Published
Item ID:	5120
Date Deposited:	07 Mar 2011 14:08
Last Modified:	30 Jun 2017 14:58
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/5120

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