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Context effects in the processing of familiar faces.

T Brennen1, V Bruce

  • 1Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale, Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble.

Psychological Research
|January 1, 1991
PubMed
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Priming with related faces speeds up recognition and naming. Associative primes facilitate, while categorical primes inhibit, face processing based on relatedness.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Previous research demonstrated priming effects for closely associated faces.
  • The influence of categorical relatedness on face recognition and naming was less understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of prime faces on the speed of familiar face recognition and naming.
  • To differentiate between associative and categorical priming effects in face perception.

Main Methods:

  • Five experiments were conducted using various face priming tasks.
  • Tasks included double-familiarity decisions and primed naming.
  • Stimuli varied in associative and categorical relatedness.

Main Results:

  • Categorical relatedness reliably influenced familiarity decisions.
  • Primed naming showed inhibition with categorical primes and facilitation with associative primes.
  • The effects differed based on the type of prime-target relationship.

Conclusions:

  • Face priming effects depend on the nature of the prime-target relationship (associative vs. categorical).
  • Associative priming appears to occur at an earlier processing stage than categorical priming inhibition.

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