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Routes through the face recognition system.

D C Hay1, A W Young, A W Ellis

  • 1University of Lancaster, Bailrigg, U.K.

The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. A, Human Experimental Psychology
|November 1, 1991
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This study investigated face recognition, proposing it occurs in sequential stages. Experiments confirmed distinct, successive stages in recognizing familiar faces, supporting sequential models.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Human Perception

Background:

  • The Hay and Young (1982) model proposes sequential stages for face recognition.
  • Understanding the stages of facial recognition is crucial for cognitive science.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To experimentally test the sequential stage model of face recognition proposed by Hay and Young (1982).
  • To investigate the distinct stages involved in recognizing familiar faces.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments were conducted using recognition tasks with famous and unfamiliar faces.
  • Participants identified familiar faces, then recalled semantic information and names.
  • Experiment 2 included post-testing interrogations to analyze recognition errors.

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Main Results:

  • Observed response types were consistent with predictions from sequential models.
  • Results supported the existence of distinct, successive stages in face recognition.
  • The laboratory method validated findings from "dairy" type studies of everyday errors.

Conclusions:

  • Evidence strongly supports a sequential model of face recognition.
  • The findings confirm that recognizing a known person involves distinct, successive cognitive stages.
  • The study extends the investigation of recognition errors into controlled laboratory settings.