How do we recognize the individual faces of our family members, friends and acquaintances across the variation that is common in daily life? Zhan and colleagues demonstrate the importance of three-dimensional structure in the representations of known individuals and argue that texture—the surface properties of faces—plays little role in representation.
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Blauch, N., Behrmann, M. Representing faces in 3D. Nat Hum Behav 3, 776–777 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0630-6
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