What's so special about the average face?

@article{citeulike:2678719, abstract = {The past few years have seen a marked increase in our understanding of how faces are represented in the brain, with the discovery of new anatomical structures and new algorithms for representing faces. Still, the basic computational mechanism used by the primate visual system to identify faces remains a topic of intense debate. Are faces represented by matching to a set of stored exemplars, or by measuring the distance from a standard prototype along a set of different axes? A recent article by Rhodes and Jeffery provides compelling psychophysical evidence in favor of the latter [`]axis' model.}, author = {Tsao, Doris Y. and Freiwald, Winrich A. }, citeulike-article-id = {2678719}, doi = {10.1016/j.tics.2006.07.009}, journal = {Trends in Cognitive Sciences}, keywords = {face}, month = {September}, number = {9}, pages = {391--393}, posted-at = {2008-04-16 19:49:57}, priority = {2}, title = {What's so special about the average face?}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2006.07.009}, volume = {10}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2678719 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2678719 TI - What's so special about the average face? JF - Trends in Cognitive Sciences VL - 10 IS - 9 SP - 391 EP - 393 N2 - The past few years have seen a marked increase in our understanding of how faces are represented in the brain, with the discovery of new anatomical structures and new algorithms for representing faces. Still, the basic computational mechanism used by the primate visual system to identify faces remains a topic of intense debate. Are faces represented by matching to a set of stored exemplars, or by measuring the distance from a standard prototype along a set of different axes? A recent article by Rhodes and Jeffery provides compelling psychophysical evidence in favor of the latter [`]axis' model. KW - face AU - Tsao, Doris AU - Freiwald, Winrich PY - 2006/09// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2006.07.009 ER -