title: Mental representations of familiar faces.
abstract: The Bruce and Young (1986) framework makes a number of important distinctions between the types of representation needed to recognize a familiar face. Here, we return to these, focussing particularly on face recognition units. We argue that such representations need to incorporate idiosyncratic within-person variability, asking questions such as 'What counts as a picture of Harrison Ford?'. We describe a mechanism for achieving this, and discuss the relation between image variability and episodic face memories, in the context of behavioural and neurophysiological data.
authors: School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 2UB, UK. m.burton@abdn.ac.uk
authors: A Mike
authors: AM
authors: Burton
authors: Rob
authors: R
authors: Jenkins
authors: Stefan R
authors: SR
authors: Schweinberger
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D005145:Face; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination / Q000502:physiology*; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*