More efficient scanning for familiar faces

Old Familiar Faces

Capuchins recognize familiar faces

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.09.017 0003-3472/© 2016 The Association for the Study of A Although growing neural evidence suggests that human and nonhuman primates share a similar faceprocessing mechanism, evidence from behavioural research has been mixed. If primates share a similar face-processing system, one would expect to observe similar behavioural effects in both human and non...

Why are familiar-only experiences more frequent for voices than for faces?

Hanley, Smith, and Hadfield (1998) showed that when participants were asked to recognize famous people from hearing their voice, there was a relatively large number of trials in which the celebrity's voice was felt to be familiar but biographical information about the person could not be retrieved. When a face was found familiar, however, the celebrity's occupation was significantly more likely...

Neural systems for recognition of familiar faces.

Immediate access to information about people that we encounter is an essential requirement for effective social interactions. In this manuscript we briefly review our work and work of others on familiar face recognition and propose a modified version of our model of neural systems for face perception with a special emphasis on processes associated with recognition of familiar faces. We argue th...

Automatic identification of familiar faces.

Much research has suggested that facial identification has some characteristics of automaticity, in that it is rapid, nonconscious, and mandatory. However, little research has tested whether it can occur even if attention is already devoted to the demanding central processes of another task. In the present study, we addressed this type of automaticity using the psychological refractory period p...