Recognising Familiar Faces Out of Context

Expertise in familiar face recognition has been well-documented in several studies. Here, we examined the role of context using a surprise lecturer recognition test. Across two experiments, we found few students recognised their lecturer when they were unexpected, but accuracy was higher when the le...

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Autores principales: Laurence, Sarah, Eyre, Jordyn, Strathie, Ailsa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
Materias:
Short and Sweets
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7879218/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33459167
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0301006620984326
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description Expertise in familiar face recognition has been well-documented in several studies. Here, we examined the role of context using a surprise lecturer recognition test. Across two experiments, we found few students recognised their lecturer when they were unexpected, but accuracy was higher when the lecturer was preceded by a prompt. Our findings suggest that familiar face recognition can be poor in unexpected contexts.
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spelling pubmed-78792182021-02-22 Recognising Familiar Faces Out of Context Laurence, Sarah Eyre, Jordyn Strathie, Ailsa Perception Short and Sweets Expertise in familiar face recognition has been well-documented in several studies. Here, we examined the role of context using a surprise lecturer recognition test. Across two experiments, we found few students recognised their lecturer when they were unexpected, but accuracy was higher when the lecturer was preceded by a prompt. Our findings suggest that familiar face recognition can be poor in unexpected contexts. SAGE Publications 2021-01-17 2021-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7879218/ /pubmed/33459167 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0301006620984326 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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