O'Toole, Deffenbacher, Valentin, and Abdi (1994) reviewed a lot of factors that influence face recognition. Typicality, among these factors, refers to how similar a face is to a prototypical face. A prototypical face is a blend of typical or homogeneous features that are "regular." A prototypical face is a conceptual tool used to describe similarity of features. Closely related faces of an individual's concept of the prototypical face blend with the features of that prototype, whereas unusual features or non-prototypical faces would tend to "stand out" in memory.
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