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An ERP study of famous face incongruity detection in middle age
1Unité de Neurosciences Cognitives et Imagerie Cérébrale, CNRS UPR 640, LENA, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, 47 bd de l'Hôpital, Paris cedex 13, 75651, France. laurence.chaby@chups.jussieu.fr
Abstract:
Age-related changes in famous face incongruity detection were examined in middle-aged (mean = 50.6) and young (mean = 24.8) subjects. Behavioral and ERP responses were recorded while subjects, after a presentation of a "prime face" (a famous person with the eyes masked), had to decide whether the following "test face" was completed with its authentic eyes (congruent) or with other eyes (incongruent). The principal effects of advancing age were (1) behavioral difficulties in discriminating between incongruent and congruent faces; (2) a reduced N400 effect due to N400 enhancement for both congruent and incongruent faces; (3) a latency increase of both N400 and P600 components. ERPs to primes (face encoding) were not affected by aging. These results are interpreted in terms of early signs of aging.
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