Face recognition Flashcards
What kind of model is Bruce and Young’s model of face recognition?
Modular model - functions are independently processed
What are the two types of pathways and what do they do?
Distinct - recognising familiar faces vs expressions
Parallel - facial/speech/info like sex & race
What are parallel pathways?
Go through stages in order/same time - eg face/identity/name/where you recognise them from
What is ‘Face Recognition Unit’?
Recognising a face that has been encountered before
Young, Hay and Ellis - what is the ‘Memory loss diary’?
Familiarity, but person can’t be recognise & name can’t be retrieved - or just misidentification
What does familiarity not influence? (2 things)
Gender decisions
Expression analysis
What’s double disassociation for face recognition and facial expression?
Some can identity identity but not expression, and vice versa
What are active in the processing of identity vs emotion?
Different cortical sites
What’s semantic priming?
A face is recognised quicker if a face linked to it is shown first
What does the IAC model stand for and who did it?
McClelland - the Interactive Activation model
What’s the IAC model?
Semantic info is pooled into pools - age/name etc
Info connects between/within pools - demonstrates relationships
What are connections within pools?
And between pools?
Mutually inhibitory
Mutually facilitatory
What’s cross-model semantic priming?
Someone’s spoken name can help recognise someone else’s face
What are first-order relations?
Everyone shares basics - eyes above nose
What are second-order relations?
Spatial relations - relationships between features
