Wiese, Holger, Popova, Tsvetomila, Lidborg, Linda H et al. (1 more author) (2024) The temporal dynamics of familiar face recognition: Event-related brain potentials reveal the efficient activation of facial identity representations. International journal of psychophysiology. 112423. ISSN 0167-8760
Abstract
While it is widely known that humans are typically highly accurate at recognizing familiar faces, it is less clear how efficiently recognition is achieved. In a series of three experiments, we used event-related brain potentials (ERP) in a repetition priming paradigm to examine the efficiency of familiar face recognition. Specifically, we varied the presentation time of the prime stimulus between 500 ms and 33 ms (Experiments 1 and 2), and additionally used backward masks (Experiment 3) to prevent the potential occurrence of visual aftereffects. Crucially, to test for the recognition of facial identity rather than a specific picture, we used different images of the same facial identities in repetition conditions. We observed clear ERP repetition priming effects between 300 and 500 ms after target onset at all prime durations, which suggests that the prime stimulus was sufficiently well processed to allow for facilitated recognition of the target in all conditions. This finding held true even in severely restricted viewing conditions including very brief prime durations and backward masks. We conclude that the facial recognition system is both highly effective and efficient, thus allowing for our impressive ability to recognise the faces that we know.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Authors |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 07 Oct 2024 13:00 |
Last Modified: | 23 Oct 2024 00:22 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112423 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112423 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:218055 |
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