State-trace analysis of the Face Inversion Effect

Title: State-trace analysis of the Face Inversion Effect
Creator: Prince, Melissa; Heathcote, Andrew
Relation: 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2009). CogSci 2009 Proceedings (Amsterdam, Netherlands 29 July - 1 August, 2009) p. 685-690
Relation: http://csjarchive.cogsci.rpi.edu/Proceedings/2009/papers/121/index.html
Publisher: Cognitive Science Society
Resource Type: conference paper
Date: 2009
Description: The Face Inversion Effect (FIE), the finding that inversion disproportionately affects face recognition, is one of the primary pieces of evidence suggesting that faces are encoded in a qualitatively different way to other stimuli (e.g., along configural as well as featural dimensions). However, when Loftus, Oberg and Dillon (2004) tested the FIE 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 test. We report experimental results that replicate Loftus et al.’s findings and rule out several potential problems with their experimental manipulations and state-trace analysis.
Subject: Face Inversion Effect; recognition memory; state-trace analysis
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/919805
Identifier: uon:8982
Identifier: ISBN:9780976831853
Language: eng
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