Face, the final frontier: An ERP study probing processing of human and alien faces in Trekkies and non-Trekkies

Experience can change the face processing system in infancy (e.g., Kelly et al., 2009) and childhood (e.g., Sangrigoli et al., 2005). This flexibility is less evident in adulthood (Dufour et al., 2004), potentially due to age-related declines in plasticity. Alternatively, reduced flexibility may be due to changes in the environment that decrease the likelihood of massive, individuated experience with novel face types (see Scott & Monesson,...