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Volume 1 Issue 1 (2005)

Face adaptation: Changing stable representations of familiar faces within minutes?

pp. 1-7
First published on 1 June 2005 | DOI:10.2478/v10053-008-0038-8
Claus-Christian Carbon, Helmut Leder
Corresponding author:
Claus-Christian Carbon, Department of Psychological Basic Research, University of Vienna, Liebiggasse 5, A-1010 Vienna, Austria.
E-mail: ccc@experimental-psychology.com
APA
Carbon, C.-C., & Leder, H. (2005). Face adaptation: Changing stable representations of familiar faces within minutes? Advances in Cognitive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.5709/acp-0038-8
Abstract

Three experiments are reported showing that the perception and the assessment of veridicality of familiar faces are highly adaptive to new visual information. Subjects were asked to discriminate between real photographs and altered versions of celebrities. Exposing participants to extremely deviated versions changed the usually stable representations of the famous faces within a very short time. In Experiment 1, exposure to an extreme face version resulted in identity decisions shifted towards the exposed one. Experiment 2 revealed that the effects are not short lasting. In Experiment 3, we showed that the effect also generalizes to different pictures of the same famous person. Together the experiments seem to indicate that the brain permanently adapts to new perceptual information and integrates new data within already elaborated representations in a fast way.

Keywords: face recognition, face representation, adaptation effect, learning, memory

Influence of gaze direction on pointing to unseen proprioceptive targets

pp. 9-16
First published on 22 November 2005 | DOI:10.2478/v10053-008-0039-7
Annabelle Blangero, Yves Rossetti, Jacques Honoré, Laure Pisella
Corresponding author:
Laure Pisella, Espace et Action, UMR-S INSERM U534, 16 avenue Lépine 69676 Bron, France.
E-mail: pisella@lyon.inserm.fr
APA
Blangero, A., Rossetti, Y., Honoré, J., & Pisella, L. (2005). Influence of gaze direction on pointing to unseen proprioceptive targets. Advances in Cognitive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.2478/v10053-008-0039-7
Abstract

The question of how sensory information is encoded and integrated for goal-directed movements is a major topic in action research. Here we studied the influence of the direction of gaze on a task in which healthy individuals were required to point to their own unseen fingertip. An effect of the position of gaze on pointing, leading to pointing errors in the direction opposite to the gaze position, was obtained in the range of 11° but vanished for 22°. These results suggest that targets of aiming movements performed with an unseen arm may be encoded in retinal coordinates even when the target is encoded in a nonvisual modality and remains unseen.

Keywords: gaze, pointing, proprioceptive, retinal coordinates, sensori-motor

Tasks financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education on the basis of the contract no. 801/P-DUN/2018 out of the funds designed for activities promoting science: Preparation and editing of English versions of articles, Financing foreign Editors-in-Chief, Dissemination of publications and increasing their accessibility to a broad range of readers, Creation of the XML conversion platform to improve the access to the articles (2018-2019). Advances in Cognitive Psychology is co-financed by the Ministry of Education and Science (Ministerstwo Edukacji i Nauki) under the program "Rozwój czasopism naukowych," RCN/SN/0494/2021/1.

Zadania finansowane w ramach umowy 801/P-DUN/2018 ze środków Ministra Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego przeznaczonych na działalność upowszechniającą naukę: Finansowanie zagranicznych redaktorów naczelnych; Przygotowanie i edycja anglojęzycznych publikacji; Upowszechnianie publikacji i ułatwianie dostępu do nich szerokiemu gronu odbiorców; Utworzenie nowej platformy do udostępniania artykułów. Advances in Cognitive Psychology jest współfinansowane przez Ministerstwo Edukacji i Nauki w ramach programu "Rozwój czasopism naukowych," RCN/SN/0494/2021/1.