How robust is familiar face recognition? A repeat detection study of more than 1000 faces.

ABSTRACT: Recent theories suggest that familiar faces have a robust representation in memory because they have been encountered over a wide variety of contexts and image changes (e.g. lighting, viewpoint and expression). By contrast, unfamiliar faces are encountered only once, and so they do not benefit from such richness of experience and are represented based on image-specific details. In this registered report, we used a repeat detection task to test whether familiar faces are recognized better than unfamiliar faces across image changes. Participants viewed a stream of more than 1000 celebrity face images for 0.5 s each, any of which might be repeated at a later point and has to be detected. Some participants saw the same image at repeats, while others saw a different image of the same face. A po

SUBMITTER: Chapman AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5990823 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature