Facial typicality and attractiveness reflect an ideal dimension of face structure.

ABSTRACT: Face perception and recognition are important processes for social interaction and communication among humans, so understanding how faces are mentally represented and processed has major implications. At the same time, faces are just some of the many stimuli that we encounter in our everyday lives. Therefore, more general theories of how we represent objects might also apply to faces. Contemporary research on the mental representation of faces has centered on two competing theoretical frameworks that arose from more general categorization research: prototype-based face representation and exemplar-based face representation. Empirically distinguishing between these frameworks is difficult and neither one has been ruled out. In this paper, we advance this area of research in three ways. First

SUBMITTER: Trujillo LT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9899519 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature