Repetition Priming of Face Recognition

1994 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Repetition Priming

Repetition priming of face recognition

1987 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew W. Ellis ◽  
Andrew W. Young ◽  
Brenda M. Flude ◽  
Dennis C. Hay
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Repetition Priming ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
Prior Exposure ◽  
Partial Replication ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Physical Similarity ◽  
The Face

Three experiments investigating the priming of the recognition of familiar faces are reported. In Experiment 1, recognizing the face of a celebrity in an “Is this face familiar?” task was primed by exposure several minutes earlier to a different photograph of the same person, but not by exposure to the person's written name (a partial replication of Bruce and Valentine, 1985). In Experiment 2, recognizing the face of a personal acquaintance was again primed by recognizing a different photograph of their face, but not by recognizing the acquaintance from that person's body shape, clothes etc. Experiment 3 showed that maximum repetition priming is obtained from prior exposure to an identical photograph of a famous face, less from a similar photograph, and least (but still significant) from a dissimilar photograph. We argue that repetition priming is a function of the degree of physical similarity between two stimuli and that lack of priming between different stimulus types (e.g., written names and faces, or bodies and faces) may be attributable to lack of physical similarity between prime and test stimuli. Repetition priming effects may be best explained by some form of “instance-based” model such as that proposed by McClelland and Rumelhart (1985).

Repetition priming between parts and wholes: Tests of a computational model of familiar face recognition

1997 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 579-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew W. Ellis ◽  
A. Mike Burton ◽  
Andy Young ◽  
Brenda M. Flude
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Computational Model ◽  
Repetition Priming ◽  
Familiar Face

Repeated Repetition Priming in Face Recognition

1999 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 927-955 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael B. Lewis ◽  
Hadyn D. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Repetition Priming

Cognitive mechanisms of face processing

1992 ◽  
Vol 335 (1273) ◽  
pp. 113-119 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Repetition Priming ◽  
Semantic Knowledge ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Cognitive Representations ◽  
Familiar Face ◽  
The Face ◽  
Related Individuals ◽  
Familiar Person

Evidence from natural and induced errors of face recognition, from the effects of different cues on resolving errors, and from the latencies to make different decisions about seen faces, all suggest that familiar face recognition involves a fixed, invariant sequence of stages. To recognize a familiar face, a perceptual description of a seen face must first activate a long-standing representation of the appearance of the face of the familiar person. ‘Semantic’ knowledge about such things as the person’s occupation and personality are accessed next, followed, in the final stage, by the name. Certain factors affect the ease of familiar face recognition. Faces seen in the recent past are recognized more readily (repetition priming), as are distinctive faces, and faces preceded by those of related individuals (associative priming). Our knowledge of these phenomena is reviewed for the light it can shed upon the mechanisms of face recognition. Four aspects of face recognition - graded similarity effects and part-to-whole completion in repetition priming, prototype extraction with simultaneous retention of information about individual exemplars, and distinctiveness effects in classification and identification - are proposed as being compatible with distributed memory accounts of cognitive representations.

Repeated Repetition Priming in Face Recognition

1999 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 927-955 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael B. Lewis ◽  
Hadyn D. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Repetition Priming

Effects of Facial Identity on Age Judgments

2010 ◽  
Vol 57 (5) ◽  
pp. 390-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuly Dagovitch ◽  
Tzvi Ganel
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Repetition Priming ◽  
Experimental Session ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Facial Identity ◽  
Priming Paradigm ◽  
Memory Representations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Unfamiliar Faces ◽  
Facial Age

According to current face recognition models, facial identity is processed independently from other visually derived facial aspects, such as facial age. Here we used a repetition priming paradigm to investigate the relationship between the processing of facial identity and facial age. In Experiment 1, participants made speeded age classifications for primed and unprimed faces of famous celebrities. Performance was faster and more accurate for primed compared to unprimed faces, which indicates that the processing of facial age benefits from priming effects. In Experiment 2, priming was also found for preexperimentally unfamiliar faces which were familiarized during the experimental session. In Experiment 3, priming effects were found even when different photos of the same people were presented at study and at test. These results suggest that the processing of age is mediated by memory representations of facial identity.

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