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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, AThe 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.
History
Publication title
Cognition in Flux: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science SocietyEditors
S Ohlsson & R CatramboneISBN
978-0-9768318-6-0Department/School
Tasmanian School of MedicinePublisher
Cognitive Science SocietyPlace of publication
United StatesEvent title
32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI 2010)Event Venue
Portland, OregonDate of Event (Start Date)
2010-08-11Date of Event (End Date)
2010-08-14Rights statement
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