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Speak My Language and I Will Remember Your Face Better: An ERP Study

Here we investigated how the language in which a person addresses us, native or foreign, influences subsequent face recognition. In an old/new paradigm, we explored the behavioral and electrophysiological activity associated with face recognition memory. Participants were first presented with faces...

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Autores principales: Baus, Cristina, Bas, Jesús, Calabria, Marco, Costa, Albert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5424200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28539898
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00709
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description Here we investigated how the language in which a person addresses us, native or foreign, influences subsequent face recognition. In an old/new paradigm, we explored the behavioral and electrophysiological activity associated with face recognition memory. Participants were first presented with faces accompanied by voices speaking either in their native (NL) or foreign language (FL). Faces were then presented in isolation and participants decided whether the face was presented before (old) or not (new). The results revealed that participants were more accurate at remembering faces previously paired with their native as opposed to their FL. At the event-related potential (ERP) level, we obtained evidence that faces in the NL were differently encoded from those in the FL condition, potentially due to differences in processing demands. During recognition, the frontal old/new effect was present (with a difference in latency) regardless of the language with which a face was associated, while the parietal old/new effect appeared only for faces associated with the native language. These results suggest that the language of our social interactions has an impact on the memory processes underlying the recognition of individuals.
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spelling pubmed-54242002017-05-24 Speak My Language and I Will Remember Your Face Better: An ERP Study Baus, Cristina Bas, Jesús Calabria, Marco Costa, Albert Front Psychol Psychology Here we investigated how the language in which a person addresses us, native or foreign, influences subsequent face recognition. In an old/new paradigm, we explored the behavioral and electrophysiological activity associated with face recognition memory. Participants were first presented with faces accompanied by voices speaking either in their native (NL) or foreign language (FL). Faces were then presented in isolation and participants decided whether the face was presented before (old) or not (new). The results revealed that participants were more accurate at remembering faces previously paired with their native as opposed to their FL. At the event-related potential (ERP) level, we obtained evidence that faces in the NL were differently encoded from those in the FL condition, potentially due to differences in processing demands. During recognition, the frontal old/new effect was present (with a difference in latency) regardless of the language with which a face was associated, while the parietal old/new effect appeared only for faces associated with the native language. These results suggest that the language of our social interactions has an impact on the memory processes underlying the recognition of individuals. Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5424200/ /pubmed/28539898 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00709 Text en Copyright © 2017 Baus, Bas, Calabria and Costa. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Speak My Language and I Will Remember Your Face Better: An ERP Study
title Speak My Language and I Will Remember Your Face Better: An ERP Study
title_full Speak My Language and I Will Remember Your Face Better: An ERP Study
title_fullStr Speak My Language and I Will Remember Your Face Better: An ERP Study
title_full_unstemmed Speak My Language and I Will Remember Your Face Better: An ERP Study
title_short Speak My Language and I Will Remember Your Face Better: An ERP Study
title_sort speak my language and i will remember your face better: an erp study
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5424200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28539898
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00709
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