From rotation to dis guration : Testing a dual - strategymodel

This study investigates the eeect of distinctive marks on the recognition of unfamiliar faces across view angles. Subjects were asked to memorize a set of target faces, half of which had distinctive marks. Recognition was assessed by presenting the target faces, either in the same orientation, or after 90 degrees rotation, mixed with an equal number of distractors. Results show that the eeect of distinctive marks depends on the view presented during learning. When a frontal view was learned, as predicted by the Valentin, Abdi, Edelman, and Posamentier (in press) dual-strategy model, distinctive marks improve recognition performance in the 90-degree condition but not in the 0-degree condition. However, when a proole view was learned, distinctive marks have no eeect on recognition performance, even in the 90-degree condition where a frontal view is tested.