Modelling face memory reveals task-generalizable representations.

ABSTRACT: Current cognitive theories are cast in terms of information-processing mechanisms that use mental representations^1-4. For example, people use their mental representations to identify familiar faces under various conditions of pose, illumination and ageing, or to draw resemblance between family members. Yet, the actual information contents of these representations are rarely characterized, which hinders knowledge of the mechanisms that use them. Here, we modelled the three-dimensional representational contents of 4 faces that were familiar to 14 participants as work colleagues. The representational contents were created by reverse-correlating identity information generated on each trial with judgements of the face's similarity to the individual participant's memory of this face.

SUBMITTER: Zhan J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7616910 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature