Electrophysiological Correlates of Recollecting Faces of Known and Unknown Individuals

Paller, Ken A.; Gonsalves, Brian D.; Grabowecky, Marcia; Bozic, Vladimir S.; Yamada, Shishin

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“…ERP differences between learned and new faces in the present experiment bore a strong resemblance to those in two prior studies (Paller et al , 2000. This correspondence suggests Figure 2 Brain activations from the heavy-retrieval vs. light-retrieval contrast.…”

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“…A convincing association between electrophysiological effects and recollection, as opposed to nonconscious memory, was found by Paller et al (1999) on the basis of the fact that the two critical conditions differed in recognition but were matched in perceptual priming, and in physical stimulus characteristics. Subsequent comparisons between faces with and without spoken vignettes (Paller et al 2000) showed qualitatively different ERP patterns at retrieval, suggesting that posterior ERPs were related to facial memory and anterior ERPs to nonfacial memory (e.g., biographical retrieval). Finally, in a recent study focusing on the experience of pure familiarity, brain potentials recorded when subjects viewed a face that provoked retrieval of contextual information associated with that face resembled those in the present experiment (G. Yovel and K.A.…”

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“…Subjects made use of these spoken vignettes in order to memorize the faces. Another 20 faces were presented without voices, as in several antecedent experiments (Paller et al , 2000. The specific faces presented with and without voices were counterbalanced across subjects.…”

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“…In prior investigations of person recognition conducted in this manner, we used a procedure for simulating the experience of meeting 20 people (Paller et al , 2000. Experimental participants accurately discriminated these learned faces from new faces, and concurrently recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) differed reliably between learned and new faces.…”

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Neural Correlates of Person Recognition

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Ranganath²,

Gonsalves³

et al. 2003

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Rapidly identifying known individuals is an essential skill in human society. To elucidate the neural basis of this skill, we monitored brain activity while experimental participants demonstrated their ability to recognize people on the basis of viewing their faces. Each participant first memorized the faces of 20 individuals who were not known to the participants in advance. Each face was presented along with a voice simulating the individual speaking their name and a biographical fact. Following this learning procedure, the associated verbal information could be recalled accurately in response to each face. These learned faces were subsequently viewed together with new faces in a memory task. Subjects made a yes-no recognition decision in response to each face while also covertly retrieving the person-specific information associated with each learned face. Brain activity that accompanied this retrieval of person-specific information was contrasted to that when new faces were processed. Functional magnetic resonance imaging in 10 participants showed that several brain regions were activated during blocks of learned faces, including left hippocampus, left middle temporal gyrus, left insula, and bilateral cerebellum. Recordings of event-related brain potentials in 10 other participants tracked the time course of face processing and showed that learned faces engaged neural activity responsible for person recognition 300-600 msec after face onset. Collectively, these results suggest that the visual input of a recently learned face can rapidly trigger retrieval of associated person-specific information through reactivation of distributed cortical networks linked via hippocampal connections.Memory for people requires linking together diverse sorts of information, including a person's name, physical appearance, personal characteristics, and relevant interpersonal interactions. A brief glimpse of a face can provoke the rapid retrieval of a wealth of stored information pertaining to that person. However, the computational steps required for this process of person recognition are not well understood.How is person-specific information represented in the brain, and what happens to allow that information to be retrieved? When retrieval is cued by facial input, structural analysis in the visual system is the first step. Investigations of face processing using single-unit physiology (e.g

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“…Generally in line with the suggestion of more frontally distributed effects for newly learned stimuli, similar results have been observed in a study on face recognition memory, in which faces were presented either with or without additional semantic information during learning (Paller, Gonsalves, Grabowecky, Bozic, & Yamada, 2000). In this study, faces learned with additional semantic information elicited more positive amplitudes relative to new faces at anterior sites between 300 and 600 ms, and this effect was not observed for faces learned without semantic information.…”

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Getting connected: Both associative and semantic links structure semantic memory for newly learned persons

Wiese

Schweinberger

2015

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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. (2015) 'Getting connected : both associative and semantic links structure semantic memory for newly learned persons.', Quarterly journal of experimental psychology., 68 (11). pp. 2131-2148.Further information on publisher's website:https://doi.org/10. 1080/17470218.2015.1008526 Publisher's copyright statement:This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor Francis Group in Quarterly journal of experimental psychology on 02/03/2015, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10. 1080/17470218.2015.1008526 Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. 2 AbstractThe present study examined whether semantic memory for newly learnt people is structured by visual co-occurrence, shared semantics, or both. Participants were trained with pairs of simultaneously presented (i.e., co-occurring) pre-experimentally unfamiliar faces, which either did or did not share additionally provided semantic information (occupation, place of living etc.). Semantic information could also be shared between faces that did not cooccur. A subsequent priming experiment revealed faster responses for both co-occurrence/no shared semantics and no co-occurrence/shared semantics conditions, relative to an unrelated condition. Strikingly, priming was strongest in the co-occurrence/shared semantics condition, suggesting additive effects of these factors. Additional analysis of event-related brain potentials yielded priming in the N400 component only for combined effects of visual cooccurrence and shared semantics, with more positive amplitudes in this relative the unrelated condition. Overall, these findings suggest that both semantic relatedness and visual cooccurrence are important when novel information is integrated into person-related semantic memory.

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Neural correlates of personally familiar faces: Parents, partner and own faces

Taylor¹,

Arsalidou²,

Bayless³

et al. 2008

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Investigations of the neural correlates of face recognition have typically used old/new paradigms where subjects learn to recognize new faces or identify famous faces. Familiar faces, however, include one's own face, partner's and parents' faces. Using event-related fMRI, we examined the neural correlates of these personally familiar faces. Ten participants were presented with photographs of own, partner, parents, famous and unfamiliar faces and responded to a distinct target. Whole brain, two regions of interest (fusiform gyrus and cingulate gyrus), and multiple linear regression analyses were conducted. Compared with baseline, all familiar faces activated the fusiform gyrus; own faces also activated occipital regions and the precuneus; partner faces activated similar areas, but in addition, the parahippocampal gyrus, middle superior temporal gyri and middle frontal gyrus. Compared with unfamiliar faces, only personally familiar faces activated the cingulate gyrus and the extent of activation varied with face category. Partner faces also activated the insula, amygdala and thalamus. Regions of interest analyses and laterality indices showed anatomical distinctions of processing the personally familiar faces within the fusiform and cingulate gyri. Famous faces were right lateralized whereas personally familiar faces, particularly partner and own faces, elicited bilateral activations. Regression analyses show experiential predictors modulated with neural activity related to own and partner faces. Thus, personally familiar faces activated the core visual areas and extended frontal regions, related to semantic and person knowledge and the extent and areas of activation varied with face type.

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Electrophysiological Correlates of Recollecting Faces of Known and Unknown Individuals

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Neural Correlates of Person Recognition

Neural Correlates of Person Recognition

Getting connected: Both associative and semantic links structure semantic memory for newly learned persons

Neural correlates of personally familiar faces: Parents, partner and own faces

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