Human brain potential correlates of repetition priming in face and name recognition

Schweinberger, Stefan R.; Pickering, Esther C.; Burton, A. Mike; Kaufmann, Jürgen M.

doi:10.1016/s0028-3932(02)00050-7

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“…Although the present experiments do not use a classical N400 paradigm, our early effect may be related to an N400-like priming effect, given its timing and its scalp-distribution. Similar effects, with relatively more positive amplitudes for repeated relative to non-repeated items, have been observed in longterm repetition priming experiments using famous names and faces (Schweinberger et al, 2002). The effect in Experiments 1 and 2 may resemble within-modality long-term repetition priming, as names repeated in the same stimulus modality between learning and test elicited more positive amplitudes than non-repeated new names and names presented in a different modality at test.…”

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“…Roediger & Blaxton, 1987), but in contrast to cross-modality priming in both younger and older adults for ecologically valid stimuli presented in the visual and auditory, as well as in the visual and tactual modality (Ballesteros, Gonzáles, Mayas, García-Rodríguez & Reales, 2009, Reales & Ballesteros, 1999. In an ERP study, repeated relative to nonrepeated names elicited more positive amplitudes between 500 -600 ms (Schweinberger, Pickering, Burton, & Kaufmann, 2002), resembling an N400 effect (Kutas & Federmeier, 2011), which was interpreted as reflecting the facilitated access to person-specific representations. Accordingly, an influence of repetition priming on source memory judgments for person-related information may manifest in N400-like ERP effects.…”

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Fluency affects source memory for familiar names in younger and older adults: Evidence from event-related brain potentials

2014

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2014) 'Fluency aects source memory for familiar names in younger and older adults : evidence from event-related brain potentials. ', NeuroImage.,[92][93][94][95][96][97][98][99][100][101][102][103][104][105] Further information on publisher's website: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. depends not only on recollection, but on fluency-based processes as well. In three experiments, we used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to examine influences of fluency on source memory for famous names. At test, names were presented visually throughout, whereas visual or auditory presentation was used at learning. In Experiment 1, source decisions following old/new judgments were more accurate for repeated relative to non-repeated visually and auditorily learned names. ERPs were more positive between 300 and 600 ms for visually learned as compared to both auditorily learned and new names, resembling an N400 priming effect. In Experiment 2, we omitted the old/new decision to more directly test fast-acting fluency effects on source memory. We observed more accurate source judgments for repeated versus non-repeated visually learned names, but no such effect for repeated versus non-repeated auditorily learned names. Again, an N400 effect (300-600 ms) differentiated between visually and auditorily learned names. Importantly, this effect occurred for correct source decisions only. We interpret it as indexing fluency arising from withinmodality priming of visually learned names at test. This idea was further supported in Experiment 3, which revealed an analogous pattern of results in older adults, consistent with the assumption of spared fluency processes in older age. In sum, our findings suggest that fluency affects personrelated source memory via within-modality repetition priming in both younger and older adults.

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Fluency affects source memory for familiar names in younger and older adults: Evidence from event-related brain potentials

2014

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“…More impor- However, lateralization of N170 revealed by this approach alone is questionable, because it is based on an oversimplified assumption that the two hemispheres are anatomically symmetrical. Taking face perception as an example, numerous neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies have provided convincing evidence that face perceptual processes are strongly right-lateralized [23][24][25][26] , and some studies did show a larger N170 in the right hemisphere than in the left hemisphere [2] ; still, many studies also reported the N170 to faces to be bilateral [27][28][29] . We therefore took an alternative approach -to carefully compare the N170 in response to characters with other control stimuli within each hemisphere, which does not rely on the above assumption.…”

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Selectivity of N170 in the left hemisphere as an electrophysiological marker for expertise in reading Chinese

Zhao

Lin

et al. 2012

Neurosci. Bull.

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Objective The left-lateralized N170, an event-related potential component consistently shown in response to alphabetic words, is a robust electrophysiological marker for reading expertise in an alphabetic language. In contrast, such a marker is lacking for expertise in reading Chinese, because the existing results about the lateralization of N170 for Chinese characters are mixed, reflecting complicated factors such as top-down modulation that contribute to the relative magnitudes of N170 in the left and right hemispheres. The present study aimed to explore a potential electrophysiological marker for reading expertise in Chinese with minimal top-down influence. Methods We recorded N170 responses to Chinese characters and three kinds of control stimuli in a content-irrelevant task, minimizing potential top-down effects.Results Direct comparison of the N170 amplitude in response to Chinese characters between the hemispheres showed a marginally significant left-lateralization effect. However, detailed analyses of N170 in each hemisphere revealed a more robust pattern of left-lateralization -the N170 in the left but not the right hemisphere differentiated Chinese characters from control stimuli. Conclusion These results suggest that the selectivity of N170 (a greater N170 in response to Chinese characters than to control stimuli) within the left hemisphere rather than the hemispheric difference of N170 with regard to Chinese characters is an electrophysiological marker for expertise in reading Chinese.

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“…However, the procedure in that experiment involved presenting a prime immediately before a target. In studies using a study test procedure with delayed second item presentations, priming was not found for famous names this early in the ERP waveforms [17].…”

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Identifying the ERP correlate of a recognition memory search attempt

Diana

Vilberg

Reder

2005

Cognitive Brain Research

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Previous recognition memory studies have looked for differences in brain activity during recollection-and familiarity-based responding. Although an ERP component correlated with recollection success has been reported, no analogous component related to search initiation has been found. We argue that such a component has not been discovered because studies have compared trials in which participants have made a search attempt and failed (such as Know responses) with those in which the search attempt is successful (such as Remember responses). In the current study, we compared a task that required judgments of lifetime familiarity (differentiating famous from nonfamous names) with one that required judgments of episodic information (deciding whether a name was seen previously in the experiment). By comparing a task on which familiarity judgments were made with no search attempt to a second task in which a search attempt was likely to occur, we identified a component that may reflect the initiation of a memory search. This effect, maximal between 190 and 235 ms, is correlated with Old judgments in the episodic task. Previous ERP findings (e.g., FN400, parietal old/new effect) were also replicated in the present study.

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Human brain potential correlates of repetition priming in face and name recognition

Cited by 188 publications

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Fluency affects source memory for familiar names in younger and older adults: Evidence from event-related brain potentials

Fluency affects source memory for familiar names in younger and older adults: Evidence from event-related brain potentials

Selectivity of N170 in the left hemisphere as an electrophysiological marker for expertise in reading Chinese

Identifying the ERP correlate of a recognition memory search attempt

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