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The effects of memory load and delay on facial recognition
- Source :
- Applied Cognitive Psychology. 4:47-59
- Publication Year :
- 1990
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 1990.
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Abstract
- This experiment examined the effects of memory load over three periods of delay. Following presentation of 20, 35, or 50 targets, subjects were required to select these from an equal number of distractors 10 min, 1 week, or 2 weeks later. Increased target load (independent of increases in recognition load) decreased accuracy mainly by decreasing hit rate. Increasing delay decreased accuracy largely as a result of an increased false alarm rate. Most individual ROC curves, plotted on z-coordinates, had slopes < 1. Implications of this finding for the use of d' are discussed.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Injury control
Receiver operating characteristic
Interstimulus interval
Poison control
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Audiology
Memory load
Facial recognition system
Constant false alarm rate
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Hit rate
medicine
Psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10990720 and 08884080
- Volume :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Applied Cognitive Psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........7436e2ee77c3a31a4d2c557fee4e00fa