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External (Versus Internal) Facial Features Contribute Most to Repetition Priming in Facial Recognition: ERP Evidence
- Source :
- Perceptual and Motor Skills. 128:15-47
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2020.
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Abstract
- Previous event-related potential (ERP) research demonstrated four successive ERP components in the repetition priming of human face recognition: P100, N170, N250r, and N400. While these components correspond, respectively, to the four stages proposed by the interactive activation and competition (IAC) model, there has been no emphasis in past research on how internal and external facial features affect repetition priming and the sensitivity of these ERP components to item interval. This study was designed to address these issues. We used faces of celebrities as targets, including completely familiar faces, familiar internal feature faces, and familiar external feature faces. We displayed a target face either immediately following its prime (immediate repetition) or after a delay with interference from a presentation of two other faces (delayed repetition). ERP differences at P100 and N170 were nearly statistically non-significant; familiar faces and familiar external feature faces were associated with reliable ERP signals of N250r and N400 in the immediate repetition condition. For delayed repetition, however, N250r and N400 signals were only preserved for the familiar external feature faces. The differences of these ERP components suggest that, compared with internal facial features, external features of a previously presented face contribute more to brain-based facial repetition priming, particularly during the last two stages of the IAC model.
- Subjects :
- Male
Speech recognition
05 social sciences
Repetition priming
Electroencephalography
Recognition, Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Facial recognition system
050105 experimental psychology
Sensory Systems
N400
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Face
Repetition Priming
Reaction Time
Humans
Female
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Psychology
Evoked Potentials
Facial Recognition
Photic Stimulation
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1558688X and 00315125
- Volume :
- 128
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....58483e620649f51dcaf8ede95e6f3fa1