Fusiform Correlates of Facial Memory in Autism

A total of 99 subjects served in two facial memory experiments designed to investigate the role of two moderator variables (exposure time and inversion) on the relationship between confidence and accuracy. Consistent with the optimality hypothesis, the difference in confidence when correct and incorrect was higher for a 5-sec. than a 1-sec. exposure and for upright than for inverted faces.

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Face Adaptation—Investigating Nonconfigural Saturation Alterations

i-Perception ◽

10.1177/20416695211056362 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (6) ◽

pp. 204166952110563

Author(s):

Ronja Mueller ◽

Sandra Utz ◽

Claus-Christian Carbon ◽

Tilo Strobach

Keyword(s):

Color Information ◽

Good Tool ◽

Adaptation Studies ◽

Facial Memory ◽

Face Images ◽

The Face ◽

Facial Changes ◽

Face Stimuli ◽

Face Adaptation ◽

Adaptation Effects

Recognizing familiar faces requires a comparison of the incoming perceptual information with mental face representations stored in memory. Mounting evidence indicates that these representations adapt quickly to recently perceived facial changes. This becomes apparent in face adaptation studies where exposure to a strongly manipulated face alters the perception of subsequent face stimuli: original, non-manipulated face images then appear to be manipulated, while images similar to the adaptor are perceived as “normal.” The face adaptation paradigm serves as a good tool for investigating the information stored in facial memory. So far, most of the face adaptation studies focused on configural (second-order relationship) face information, mainly neglecting non-configural face information (i.e., that does not affect spatial face relations), such as color, although several (non-adaptation) studies were able to demonstrate the importance of color information in face perception and identification. The present study therefore focuses on adaptation effects on saturation color information and compares the results with previous findings on brightness. The study reveals differences in the effect pattern and robustness, indicating that adaptation effects vary considerably even within the same class of non-configural face information.

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The influence of trait and physical-feature-based orienting strategies on aspects of facial memory

British Journal of Psychology ◽

10.1111/j.2044-8295.1983.tb01844.x ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 74 (1) ◽

pp. 71-82 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Alan J. Parkin ◽

Cheryl Hayward

Keyword(s):

Physical Feature ◽

Facial Memory ◽

Feature Based

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Emotional trauma and childhood amnesia

Consciousness & Emotion ◽

10.1075/ce.4.2.02jos ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 151-179

Author(s):

Rhawn Joseph

Keyword(s):

Visual Memory ◽

Right Hemisphere ◽

Emotional Memory ◽

Wechsler Memory Scale ◽

Facial Memory ◽

Short Term Visual Memory ◽

History Of ◽

The Right ◽

Early Trauma ◽

Negative Memories

It has been reported that, on average, most adults recall first memories formed around age 3.5. In general, most first memories are positive. However, whether these first memories tend to be visual or verbal and whether the period for childhood amnesia (CA) is greater for visual or verbal or for positive versus negative memories has not been determined. Because negative, stressful experiences disrupt memory and can injure memory centers such as the hippocampus and amygdala, and since adults who were traumatized or abused during childhood (TA) reportedly suffer memory disturbances, it was hypothesized that those with a history of early trauma might suffer from a lengthier childhood amnesia and form their first recallable memories at a later age as compared to the general population (GP). Because the right hemisphere matures earlier than the language-dominant left hemisphere, and is dominant for visual and emotional memory, as well as the stress reponse, it was hypothesized that first recallable memories would be visual rather than verbal. Lastly, since stress can injure the brain and disrupt memory, it was hypothesized that the traumatized group would demonstrate memory and intellectual disturbances associated with right hemisphere injury as based on WAIS-R, Wechsler Memory Scale, and facial-memory testing. All hypotheses were supported. Positive and visual memories are formed before negative and verbal memories. TA CA offset, on average, is at age 6.1 versus 3.5 for GPs. TA PIQ (performance IQ), short-term visual memory, and facial memory were significantly reduced.

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Facial memory: Constructing familiar and unfamiliar faces

Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society ◽

10.3758/bf03330046 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 80-82 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mary B. Yount ◽

Kenneth R. Laughery

Keyword(s):

Facial Memory ◽

Unfamiliar Faces

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Facial Memory: The Role of the Pre-Existing Knowledge in Face Processing and Recognition

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e617732012-005 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Alejandro J. Estudillo

Keyword(s):

Face Processing ◽

Facial Memory

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Emotional Infant Face Processing in Women With Major Depression and Expecting Parents With Depressive Symptoms

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.657269 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Agnes Bohne ◽

Dag Nordahl ◽

Åsne A. W. Lindahl ◽

Pål Ulvenes ◽

Catharina E. A. Wang ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Major Depression ◽

Attentional Bias ◽

Interpersonal Relationships ◽

Facial Expressions ◽

Cognitive Processing ◽

Recognition Task ◽

Emotional Facial Expressions ◽

Facial Memory ◽

Infant Faces

Processing of emotional facial expressions is of great importance in interpersonal relationships. Aberrant engagement with facial expressions, particularly an engagement with sad faces, loss of engagement with happy faces, and enhanced memory of sadness has been found in depression. Since most studies used adult faces, we here examined if such biases also occur in processing of infant faces in those with depression or depressive symptoms. In study 1, we recruited 25 inpatient women with major depression and 25 matched controls. In study 2, we extracted a sample of expecting parents from the NorBaby study, where 29 reported elevated levels of depressive symptoms, and 29 were matched controls. In both studies, we assessed attentional bias with a dot-probe task using happy, sad and neutral infant faces, and facial memory bias with a recognition task using happy, sad, angry, afraid, surprised, disgusted and neutral infant and adult faces. Participants also completed the Ruminative Responses Scale and Becks Depression Inventory-II. In study 1, we found no group difference in either attention to or memory accuracy for emotional infant faces. Neither attention nor recognition was associated with rumination. In study 2, we found that the group with depressive symptoms disengaged more slowly than healthy controls from sad infant faces, and this was related to rumination. The results place emphasis on the importance of emotional self-relevant material when examining cognitive processing in depression. Together, these studies demonstrate that a mood-congruent attentional bias to infant faces is present in expecting parents with depressive symptoms, but not in inpatients with Major Depression Disorder who do not have younger children.

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