Testing the models? New data and commentary on Stanhope &amp; Cohen (1993)

Bruce, Vicki; Burton, A. Mike; Walker, Stephanie

doi:10.1111/j.2044-8295.1994.tb02528.x

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“…The ubiquitous nature of name learning difficulty has been the subject of considerable interest within the context of current models of face processing ability (Bruce et al, 1994;Burton & Bruce, 1992;Cohen, 1990;Stanhope & Cohen, 1993). In the present study, recall of city names was intermediate between occupation and name recall for all three groups.…”

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The acquisition of face and person identity information following anterior temporal lobectomy

Morán

Seidenberg

Sabsevitz

et al. 2005

J Int Neuropsychol Soc

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Thirty unilateral anterior temporal lobectomy (ATL) subjects (15 right and 15 left) and 15 controls were presented a multitrial learning task in which unfamiliar faces were paired with biographical information (occupation, city location, and a person's name). Face recognition hits were similar between groups, but the right ATL group committed more false-positive errors to face foils. Both left and right ATL groups were impaired relative to controls in acquiring biographical information, but the deficit was more pronounced for the left ATL group. Recall levels also varied for the different types of biographical information; occupation was most commonly recalled followed by city name and person name. In addition, city and person name recall was more likely when occupation was also recalled. Overall, recall of biographical information was positively correlated with clinical measures of anterograde episodic memory. Findings are discussed in terms of the role of the temporal lobe and associative learning ability in the successful acquisition of new face semantic (biographical) representations.

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The acquisition of face and person identity information following anterior temporal lobectomy

Morán

Seidenberg

Sabsevitz

et al. 2005

J Int Neuropsychol Soc

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“…In other words, the same representation may be used to recognize faces and to form mental images of them. If so, it may be possible to start to simulate the above results in an IAC model by using the facial feature recognition pools proposed by Burton (1994). Conversely, it could be that there are output representations of every face that we know that are separate from those that are used for face recognition.…”

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“…In such cases, episodic information might be said to be acting as an alternative to a PIN and it appears unlikely that the participant was relying on the person recognition system at all (cf. Bruce, Burton & Walker, 1994). On other occasions, where the extrinsic information was semantic in nature, participants used either visually derived semantics or else the resemblance of the face to a known person (with a known occupation) to construct their own PIN.…”

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Putting faces to names

Craigie

Hanley

1997

British J of Psychology

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An experiment is reported which investigated participants' ability to remember a person's face when they were presented with the person's name. During the learning phase, participants were shown 18 unfamiliar faces together with a name and occupation. At test, participants were presented with a name and were asked to indicate the face and occupation that had been presented with that name at learning. Results showed that participants' ability to remember the face was contingent upon their ability to remember the occupation that had been presented with the name. When participants were presented with a face and were asked to remember the name, performance was also contingent upon correctly remembering the associated occupation, consistent with the findings of McWeeny, Young, Hay & Ellis (1987). No such contingencies were apparent when participants were given an occupation and were asked to remember the associated name and face; participants frequently remembered the name but not the face, or the face without the name. These results are consistent with the serial access model of person identification proposed by Bruce & Young (1986), and with more recent developments proposed by Valentine, Brédart, Lawson & Ward (1991) and Craigie & Hanley (1993) in which there are no direct links between the representation of a person's name in memory and visual information about their facial appearance. The mnemonic strategies that were used by the participants during the learning phase of the experiment were also examined. These strategies help explain those few occasions on which participants appear to be able to link names to faces without identity-specific semantic information.

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“…Bruce (personal communication) and Bruce et a/. (1994) suggest that the types of idiosyncratic information that they believe would be useful to try to elicit are addresses, telephone numbers and dates of birth.…”

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I recognize your face but I can't remember your name: Is it because names are unique?

Harris

Kay

1995

British J of Psychology

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Burton & Bruce (1992), and Cohen (1990a), offer alternative accounts of the differences in 'normal' and neurologically impaired subjects' abilities to recall people's names and other pieces of biographical information. Cohen claims that the principal difference between names and other biographical information is in their relative meaningfulness, while Burton & Bruce argue that uniqueness is the crucial variable. As yet existing empirical evidence cannot be explained within the framework of either of these accounts, although the Burton & Bruce (1992) proposal has the advantage of being implemented as an interactive activation model. This paper describes the case of a patient who, following a stroke, retained the ability to access 'unique' semantic information for familiar people she is no longer able to name. It is argued that this pattern of performance provides difficulties for the Burton & Bruce model. However, it can be accounted for by Cohen's account, and a modified version of Burton & Bruce's model (Bruce, Burton & Walker, 1994).

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Testing the models? New data and commentary on Stanhope & Cohen (1993)

Cited by 17 publications

References 12 publications

The acquisition of face and person identity information following anterior temporal lobectomy

The acquisition of face and person identity information following anterior temporal lobectomy

Putting faces to names

I recognize your face but I can't remember your name: Is it because names are unique?

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