title: The role of familiarity in three-dimensional view-transferability of face identity adaptation.
abstract: Recent studies show that face adaptation effects partially transfer across three-dimensional viewpoint change. Here we investigated whether the degree of adaptation transfer is mediated by experience with a face. We manipulated face familiarity and measured identity aftereffects both within- and across-viewpoint. Familiarity enhanced the overall strength of identity adaptation as well as the degree to which adaptation transferred across-viewpoint change. These findings support the idea that transfer effects in adaptation vary as a function of experience with particular faces, and suggest the use of adaptation as a tool for tracking face representations as they develop.
authors.affiliation: School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, GR4.1 The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75083-0688, USA. fxj018100@utdallas.edu
authors.forename: Fang
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Volker
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Blanz
authors.forename: Alice J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: O'Toole
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000328:Adult; D005145:Face; D005366:Figural Aftereffect; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D011601:Psychophysics; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D014163:Transfer, Psychology