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Evidence for View-Invariant Face Recognition Units in Unfamiliar Face Learning
- Source :
- Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 70:874-889
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2017.
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Abstract
- Many models of face recognition incorporate the idea of a face recognition unit (FRU), an abstracted representation formed from each experience of a face which aids recognition under novel viewing conditions. Some previous studies have failed to find evidence of this FRU representation. Here, we report three experiments which investigated this theoretical construct by modifying the face learning procedure from that in previous work. During learning, one or two views of previously unfamiliar faces were shown to participants in a serial matching task. Later, participants attempted to recognize both seen and novel views of the learned faces (recognition phase). Experiment 1 tested participants’ recognition of a novel view, a day after learning. Experiment 2 was identical, but tested participants on the same day as learning. Experiment 3 repeated Experiment 1, but tested participants on a novel view that was outside the rotation of those views learned. Results revealed a significant advantage, across all experiments, for recognizing a novel view when two views had been learned compared to single view learning. The observed view invariance supports the notion that an FRU representation is established during multi-view face learning under particular learning conditions.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Adolescent
Physiology
Speech recognition
BF
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Ethinyl Estradiol
Facial recognition system
050105 experimental psychology
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Physiology (medical)
Reaction Time
Humans
Learning
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Invariant (mathematics)
General Psychology
Communication
business.industry
05 social sciences
Recognition, Psychology
General Medicine
Drug Combinations
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Face
Female
Norethindrone
business
Psychology
Photic Stimulation
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17470226 and 17470218
- Volume :
- 70
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c859ba6ec4b4ba63aec46fae5d7d36e3