scholarly journals Facial memory: Constructing familiar and unfamiliar faces

1982 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary B. Yount ◽  
Kenneth R. Laughery
Keyword(s):  
Facial Memory ◽  
Unfamiliar Faces

The automatic detection of unattended social category information from unfamiliar faces

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Martin ◽  
Rachel Swainson ◽  
Gillian Slessor ◽  
Jacqui Hutchison ◽  
Diana Marosi
Keyword(s):  
Automatic Detection ◽  
Social Category ◽  
Category Information ◽  
Unfamiliar Faces

Within-person variability can improve the identification of unfamiliar faces across changes in viewpoint

2021 ◽  
pp. 174702182110097
Author(s):  
Niamh Hunnisett ◽  
Simone Favelle
Keyword(s):  
Image Matching ◽  
Matching Task ◽  
Target Image ◽  
Front View ◽  
Multiple Image ◽  
Profile View ◽  
Unfamiliar Face ◽  
Matching Performance ◽  
Sequential Matching ◽  
Unfamiliar Faces

Unfamiliar face identification is concerningly error prone, especially across changes in viewing conditions. Within-person variability has been shown to improve matching performance for unfamiliar faces, but this has only been demonstrated using images of a front view. In this study, we test whether the advantage of within-person variability from front views extends to matching to target images of a face rotated in view. Participants completed either a simultaneous matching task (Experiment 1) or a sequential matching task (Experiment 2) in which they were tested on their ability to match the identity of a face shown in an array of either one or three ambient front-view images, with a target image shown in front, three-quarter, or profile view. While the effect was stronger in Experiment 2, we found a consistent pattern in match trials across both experiments in that there was a multiple image matching benefit for front, three-quarter, and profile-view targets. We found multiple image effects for match trials only, indicating that providing observers with multiple ambient images confers an advantage for recognising different images of the same identity but not for discriminating between images of different identities. Signal detection measures also indicate a multiple image advantage despite a more liberal response bias for multiple image trials. Our results show that within-person variability information for unfamiliar faces can be generalised across views and can provide insights into the initial processes involved in the representation of familiar faces.

scholarly journals The neural representation of personally familiar and unfamiliar faces in the distributed system for face perception

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo Visconti di Oleggio Castello ◽  
Yaroslav O. Halchenko ◽  
J. Swaroop Guntupalli ◽  
Jason D. Gors ◽  
M. Ida Gobbini
Keyword(s):  
Face Perception ◽  
Distributed System ◽  
Neural Representation ◽  
Unfamiliar Faces

scholarly journals Trust and childhood maltreatment: evidence of bias in appraisal of unfamiliar faces

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Neil ◽  
Essi Viding ◽  
Diana Armbruster‐Genc ◽  
Matteo Lisi ◽  
Isabelle Mareshal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Childhood Maltreatment ◽  
Unfamiliar Faces

Effects of Exposure Time and Inversion on the Confidence-Accuracy Relationship in Facial Memory: A Test of the Optimality Hypothesis

1990 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart J. McKelvie
Keyword(s):  
Exposure Time ◽  
Moderator Variables ◽  
Facial Memory ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Inversion ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Accuracy Relationship

A total of 99 subjects served in two facial memory experiments designed to investigate the role of two moderator variables (exposure time and inversion) on the relationship between confidence and accuracy. Consistent with the optimality hypothesis, the difference in confidence when correct and incorrect was higher for a 5-sec. than a 1-sec. exposure and for upright than for inverted faces.

scholarly journals Effects of symmetry and familiarity on the attractiveness of human faces

Psihologija ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatjana Mentus ◽  
Slobodan Markovic
Keyword(s):  
Facial Attractiveness ◽  
Cognitive Factor ◽  
Perceptual Factor ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
Perfect Symmetry ◽  
Post Hoc ◽  
Human Faces ◽  
Main Effects ◽  
Unfamiliar Faces ◽  
Font Color

The effects of both symmetry (perceptual factor) and familiarity (cognitive factor) on facial attractiveness were investigated. From the photographs of original slightly asymmetric faces, symmetric left-left (LL) and right-right (RR) versions were generated. Familiarity was induced in the learning block using the repetitive presentation of original faces. In the test block participants rated the attractiveness of original, previously seen (familiar) faces, original, not previously seen faces, and both LL and RR versions of all faces. The analysis of variance showed main effects of symmetry. Post hoc tests revealed that asymmetric original faces were rated as more attractive than both LL and RR symmetric versions. Familiarity doesn?t have a significant main effect, but the symmetry-familiarity interaction was obtained. Additional post hoc tests indicated that facial attractiveness is positively associated with natural slight asymmetry rather than with perfect symmetry. Also, unfamiliar LL symmetric versions were rated as more attractive than familiar LL versions, whereas familiar RR versions were rated as more attractive than RR unfamiliar faces. These results suggested that symmetry (perceptual factor) and familiarity (cognitive or memorial factor) play differential roles in facial attractiveness, and indicate a relatively stronger effect of the perceptual compared to the cognitive factor. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. ON179018 i br. ON179033] <br><br><font color="red"><b> This article has been corrected. Link to the correction <u><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/PSI1701101E">10.2298/PSI1701101E</a><u></b></font>

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