With Age Comes Representational Wisdom in Social Signals

With Age Comes Representational Wisdom in Social Signals - Philippe Schyns and colleagues at the University of Glasgow explain how they used reverse correlation from noise to characterize mental representations of categories of facial age in younger and older people. Their results show that whereas younger people mentally dichotomize aging into two groups, themselves (younger) and others (older), older participants faithfully represent the features of young age, middle age, and old age.