Remembering changes: repetition effects in face recollection.

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Two experiments examined effects of repetition and change on states of awareness in face recognition. Participants studied repeatedly presented photographs of faces, with the second presentation following either immediately after the first presentation (massed repetition) or following six intervening items (spaced repetition). To manipulate perceptual change, each repeated face was either identical or a mirror image of the first presentation. Subsequently, when recognising a face, participants indicated whether they consciously recollected its prior occurrence ("remembering") or recognised it on the basis of familiarity ("knowing"). Changes in appearance between repeated faces enhanced remember, but not know, responses, and these effects were accentuated for spaced, rather than massed, repetition. These findings suggest that distinctiveness of encoding supports the phenomenological experience of conscious remembering.

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Author/s: Mäntylä, Timo (T); Cornoldi, Cesare (C);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Umea, Sweden. timo.mantyla@psy.umu.se

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Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Acta psychologica (Acta Psychol (Amst)), published in Netherlands. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-Jan; vol 109 (issue 1) : pp 95-105

Dates: Created 2001/12/18; Completed 2002/04/16; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 11766141, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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