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Tessa Marzi¹, Maria Pia Viggiano

¹Department of Psychology, University of Florence, Italy. tessa.marzi@unifi.it

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Face orientation significantly impacts recognition memory. Changes in orientation from encoding to retrieval impair memory recall and alter early brain responses (N170), affecting later memory components.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Psychology
Neuroscience

Background:

Face recognition is a critical cognitive function.
The perception of facial features and their spatial configuration is crucial for accurate recognition.
Understanding how changes in face orientation affect memory encoding and retrieval is essential for cognitive models.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the temporal dynamics of face encoding and recognition.
To examine the impact of face inversion on memory performance and neural correlates.
To compare the effects of consistent versus changed face orientation during study and retrieval.

Main Methods:

Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded during a face recognition task.
Participants studied and retrieved faces with manipulated orientations (upright/inverted).
The study compared ERPs and recognition performance for faces with same vs. different orientations at encoding and retrieval.

Main Results:

Altered face orientation between encoding and retrieval impaired recognition accuracy compared to consistent orientations.
Changes in face orientation led to prolonged N170 latencies, indicating delayed early processing.
Later memory-related ERP components (>300 ms) showed graded effects, with consistent upright faces yielding the strongest memory effects.

Conclusions:

Disruption of configural face information by inversion has differential effects on memory based on orientation consistency.
A dynamic interplay exists between visual perception and memory, where face orientation modulates structural encoding and memory formation.
These findings highlight the importance of orientation in face perception and memory, influencing both early neural processing and later memory recall.