“…In several recent studies, multiple faces were shown in a study phase, and, for description conditions, a description immediately 2 Although recollection might be used correctly to accept target faces as "old", or perhaps incorrectly to exacerbate conjunction errors (via recollection of a feature or locally configural information), their data provided no compelling basis for such arguments. THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, 2013, 66 (9) 1821 VERBAL DESCRIPTION BENEFIT followed each face (Brown & Lloyd-Jones, 2005Wickham & Lander, 2008; also see Bartlett et al, 1980;Kerr & Winograd, 1982;Sporer, 1991;Winograd, 1981). The immediacy and short, unforced nature of the descriptions arguably produce accurate descriptions, which should provide an opportunity to aid later performance (Brown et al, 2010).…”