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When we see the face of someone we know, we are able to access all sorts of stored information; ‘She goes to the same pub as me’, ‘Her name’s Susan Smith’, ‘She wasn’t there last night’, and so on. How is this achieved?
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Young, A.W., Hay, D.C., Ellis, A.W. (1986). Getting Semantic Information from Familiar Faces. In: Ellis, H.D., Jeeves, M.A., Newcombe, F., Young, A. (eds) Aspects of Face Processing. NATO ASI Series, vol 28. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4420-6_12
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