The Effect of Expression Geometry and Facial Identity on the Expression Aftereffect

Part 2: Cognitive ComputingInternational audienceFew studies have systematically examined the effect of expression geometry and facial identity on this cross-identity expression aftereffect. This issue is, however, critical for understanding the nature of expression adaptation. We measured expression aftereffects using a cross-identity/cross-expression geometry factorial design. The results show that expression aftereffect would reduce if adaptor and tests have different identities or expression geometries, and that identity-independent expression aftereffect is relatively more robust to variance in expression geometry in comparison to identity-dependent expression aftereffect. Based on these results, we discussed their psychophysical and physiological implication for understanding the nature of identity-dependent and identity-independent expression representations