When you turn the other cheek: A preference for novel viewpoints of familiar faces

Inferences about the psychobiological processes that underlie face perception have been drawn from the spontaneous behaviour of eyes Using a visual paried-comparison task, we recorded the eye movements of twenty adults as they viewed pairs of faces that differed in their relative familiarity The results indicate an advantage for novel viewpoints of familiar faces over familiar viewpoints of familiar faces and novel faces We conclude that this perference servces the face recognition system by collecting the variation necessary to build robut representations of identity