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The Disproportionate Face Inversion Effect in recognition memory

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posted on 2023-05-23, 09:58 authored by Prince, M, Heathcote, A
The Disproportionate Face Inversion Effect (DFIE), the finding that inversion disproportionately affects face recognition, provides a primary piece of evidence to suggest that faces are processed in a qualitatively different way to other visual stimuli (i.e., along configural as well as featural dimensions). However, when Loftus, Oberg and Dillon (2004; also Prince and Heathcote, 2009) examined the DFIE using state-trace analysis (Bamber, 1979) they found evidence for a one-dimensional encoding of unfamiliar faces when inversion only occurred during the study phase of a recognition memory task. We further examine this one dimensional result with more precise individual measurement and more specifically, Prince and Heathcote’s suggestion that the use of configural encoding may not be automatic in recognition memory.

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Publication title

Cognition in Flux: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

Editors

S Ohlsson & R Catrambone

ISBN

978-0-9768318-6-0

Department/School

Tasmanian School of Medicine

Publisher

Cognitive Science Society

Place of publication

United States

Event title

32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI 2010)

Event Venue

Portland, Oregon

Date of Event (Start Date)

2010-08-11

Date of Event (End Date)

2010-08-14

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