Practice and incentive motivation in recognition of inverted faces.

Full Abstract

In each of three experiments, participants received successive daily practice sessions on the task of recognizing inverted faces. In all practice sessions, an initial study series of 25 inverted faces was followed immediately by a test series of 17 pairs of inverted faces. Each test pair comprised a face from the study series and a new face. Completely new sets of faces were used in each session. Recognition of inverted faces did not improve across sessions in Exp. 1 but did improve in Exps. 2 and 3. Unlike Exp. 1, Exps. 2 and 3 employed an explicit incentive for improved performance. These results show that sufficiently motivated participants can become quite proficient at recognizing inverted faces. Implications of the results for the role of expertise at recognition in producing the inversion effect are discussed.

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Author information

Author/s: Haggbloom, Steven J (SJ); Warnick, Jason E (JE);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green 42101, USA. steven.haggbloom(-atsign-)wku.edu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Perceptual and motor skills (Percept Mot Skills), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2003-Apr; vol 96 (issue 2) : pp 578-88

Dates: Created 2003/06/02; Completed 2003/09/30; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 12776840, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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Adult
Face
Female
Humans

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