A category contingent aftereffect for faces labelled with different religious affiliation is seen 7 days after adaptation

Visual adaptation occurs after a prolonged exposure to a stimulus. The duration of aftereffects differs across stimuli type, and face aftereffects may be especially long lasting. The current study investigates adaptation decay of category contingent opposing aftereffects. Specifically, we tested whether naïve undergraduate participants' adaptation to photos of faces with explicit religious labels, differed from that of participants who had …