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Recognition memory for faces: when familiarity supports associative recognition judgments.

A P Yonelinas1, N E Kroll, I G Dobbins

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis 95616, USA. apyonelinas@ucdavis.edu

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
|February 22, 2000
PubMed
Summary

Familiarity can aid associative recognition, especially for cohesive stimuli like upright faces. However, this contribution is eliminated when stimuli are presented upside down, resulting in linear receiver operating characteristics (ROCs).

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Memory Research

Background:

  • Recognition memory for single items and associations between items can be dissociated.
  • Dual-process theories suggest item recognition uses recollection and familiarity, while associative recognition primarily uses recollection.
  • Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves reveal differences: curvilinear for item recognition, linear for associative recognition of word pairs.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if associative recognition ROCs for facial stimuli are linear or curvilinear.
  • To determine if familiarity contributes to associative recognition of faces.
  • To explore the role of stimulus coherence (gestalt) in associative recognition.

Main Methods:

  • Examined associative recognition ROCs for facial stimuli with manipulated central and external features.

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  • Presented faces both upright and upside down to assess the role of familiarity.
  • Analyzed ROC curves to differentiate between linear and curvilinear patterns.

    • Main Results:

    • Upright faces yielded curvilinear associative ROCs, indicating familiarity contributed to associative judgments.
    • Upside-down faces resulted in linear associative ROCs, suggesting familiarity's contribution was eliminated.
    • Familiarity estimates were significantly above zero for upright faces but not for upside-down faces.

    Conclusions:

    • Familiarity can support associative recognition judgments when stimuli are encoded as a coherent gestalt, such as upright faces.
    • The contribution of familiarity to associative recognition is dependent on the perceptual coherence of the stimulus.
    • These findings extend dual-process theories of recognition to visual stimuli and highlight the role of holistic processing.