scholarly journals Normative data for accuracy and response times at the computerized Benton Facial Recognition Test (BFRT-c)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Rossion ◽  
Caroline Michel
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Test ◽  
Normative Data ◽  
Response Times ◽  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Population Sample ◽  
Clinical Test ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Large Variability ◽  
Benton Facial Recognition Test ◽  
Accuracy Rates

We report normative data from a large (N=307) sample of young adult participants tested with a computerized version of the long form of the classical Benton Facial Recognition Test (BFRT; Benton & Van Allen, 1968). The BFRT-c requires to match a target face photograph to one or three of 6 face photographs simultaneously presented. Percent accuracy at the BFRT-c (81%-83%) is below ceiling yet well above chance level, with little interindividual variance in this typical population sample, as expected from a sensitive clinical test. While split-half reliability on accuracy rates is relatively low due to the large variability in difficulty across items, correct response times (RTs) measured in this version – completed in 3 minutes on average - provide a reliable and critical complementary measure of performance at individual unfamiliar face matching. In line with previous observations from other measures, females outperform male participants at the BFRT-c, especially for female faces. In general, performance is also lower following lighting changes than head rotations, in line with previous studies emphasizing limited ability at matching pictures of unfamiliar faces with important variations in lighting direction. Overall, this normative data set supports the validity of the BFRT-c as a key component of a battery of tests identifying clinical impairments at individual face recognition such as observed in acquired prosopagnosia. However, beyond global indexes of performance based on accuracy rates only, this analysis strongly recommends full consideration of the time taken to match individual faces as well as the variability in performance across items.

scholarly journals Developmental prosopagnosia and the Benton Facial Recognition Test

Neurology ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 62 (7) ◽  
pp. 1219-1220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley C. Duchaine ◽  
Ken Nakayama
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Test ◽  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Benton Facial Recognition Test

scholarly journals Neuroanatomical correlates of the Benton Facial Recognition Test and Judgment of Line Orientation Test

2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Tranel ◽  
Eduardo Vianna ◽  
Kenneth Manzel ◽  
Hanna Damasio ◽  
Thomas Grabowski
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Test ◽  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Line Orientation ◽  
Benton Facial Recognition Test ◽  
Orientation Test

An update of the Benton Facial Recognition Test

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ebony Murray ◽  
Rachel Bennetts ◽  
Jeremy Tree ◽  
Sarah Bate
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Test ◽  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Benton Facial Recognition Test

Low scores on the Benton Facial Recognition Test associated with vertebrobasilar insufficiency

2013 ◽  
Vol 80 (5) ◽  
pp. 527-529
Author(s):  
Abdulkadir Koçer ◽  
Emel Koçer ◽  
Halit Beşir ◽  
Süber Dikici ◽  
Füsun Domaç ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Test ◽  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency ◽  
Benton Facial Recognition Test

An Update of the Benton Facial Recognition Test

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ebony Murray ◽  
Rachel Bennetts ◽  
Jeremy Tree ◽  
Sarah Bate
Keyword(s):  
Face Perception ◽  
Recognition Test ◽  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Simple Procedure ◽  
Internal Reliability ◽  
Diagnostic Screening ◽  
Benton Facial Recognition Test ◽  
Comparable Accuracy ◽  
Psychiatric Conditions ◽  
Completion Times

The Benton Facial Recognition Test (BFRT) is a paper-and-pen task that is traditionally used to assess face perception skills in neurological, clinical and psychiatric conditions. Despite criticisms of its stimuli, the task enjoys a simple procedure and is rapid to administer. Further, it has recently been computerised (BFRT-c), allowing reliable measurement of completion times and the need for online testing. Here, in response to calls for repeat-screening for the accurate detection of face processing deficits, we present the BFRT-Revised (BFRT-r): a new version of the BFRT-c that maintains the task’s basic paradigm, but employs new, higher quality stimuli that reflect recent theoretical advances in the field. An initial validation study with typical participants indicated that the BFRT-r has good internal reliability and content validity. A second investigation indicated that while younger and older participants had comparable accuracy, completion times were longer in the latter, highlighting the need for age-matched norms. Administration of the BFRT-r and BFRT-c to 32 individuals with developmental prosopagnosia resulted in improved sensitivity in diagnostic screening for the BFRT-r compared to the BFRT-c. These findings are discussed in relation to current diagnostic screening protocols for face perception deficits. The BFRT-r is stored in an open repository and is freely available to other researchers.

Determinants of Benton Facial Recognition Test performance in normal adults.

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Schretlen ◽  
Godfrey D. Pearlson ◽  
James C. Anthony ◽  
Khara O. Yates
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Test ◽  
Test Performance ◽  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Benton Facial Recognition Test ◽  
Normal Adults

scholarly journals Experiential and Strategic Emotional Intelligence Are Implicated When Inhibiting Affective and Non-Affective Distractors: Findings from Three Emotional Flanker N-Back Tasks

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Ming D. Lim ◽  
Damian P. Birney
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Response Times ◽  
Memory Task ◽  
Low Load ◽  
Affective Information ◽  
Accuracy Rates

Emotional intelligence (EI) refers to a set of competencies to process, understand, and reason with affective information. Recent studies suggest ability measures of experiential and strategic EI differentially predict performance on non-emotional and emotionally laden tasks. To explore cognitive processes underlying these abilities further, we varied the affective context of a traditional letter-based n-back working-memory task. In study 1, participants completed 0-, 2-, and 3-back tasks with flanking distractors that were either emotional (fearful or happy faces) or non-emotional (shapes or letters stimuli). Strategic EI, but not experiential EI, significantly influenced participants’ accuracy across all n-back levels, irrespective of flanker type. In Study 2, participants completed 1-, 2-, and 3-back levels. Experiential EI was positively associated with response times for emotional flankers at the 1-back level but not other levels or flanker types, suggesting those higher in experiential EI reacted slower on low-load trials with affective context. In Study 3, flankers were asynchronously presented either 300 ms or 1000 ms before probes. Results mirrored Study 1 for accuracy rates and Study 2 for response times. Our findings (a) provide experimental evidence for the distinctness of experiential and strategic EI and (b) suggest that each are related to different aspects of cognitive processes underlying working memory.

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