Famous face recognition and naming test: a normative study

Abstract

Tests of famous face recognition and naming, and tasks assessing semantic knowledge about famous people after presentation either of their faces or their names are often used in the neuropsychological examination of aphasic, amnesic and demented patients. A total of 187 normal subjects took part in this study. The aim was to collect normative data for a newly devised test including five subtests: famous face naming, fame judgement after face presentation and after name presentation, semantic knowledge about famous people after face presentation and after name presentation. Norms were calculated taking into account demographic variables such as age, sex and education and adjusted scores were used to determine inferential cut-off scores and to compute equivalent scores. Multiple regression analyses showed that age and education influenced significantly the performance on most subtests, but sex had no effect on any of them. Scores of the subtest evaluating fame judgements after name presentation were significantly influenced only by education. The only subtest whose scores were not influenced by any demographic variable was fame judgement after face presentation.

Stimulus generation, ratings, phoneme counts, and group classifications for 696 famous people by British adults over 40 years of age

“…The database provides ratings of AoA, familiarity, facial distinctiveness, surname frequency, and number of phonemes. The transience of fame means that some of the famous people recorded in this article may not be remembered in years to come (see, e.g., Rizzo et al, 2002). The individual frequency of encounter (or familiarity) for other stimuli may also change over time.…”

“…Rizzo, Venneri, and Papagno (2002) have collected normative data on 50 famous people as the basis of a neurological test, collecting data on semantic information. However, they did not collect ratings from their participants, nor did they ask their participants to generate the celebrities themselves.…”

Structural connectivity in a single case of progressive prosopagnosia: The role of the right inferior longitudinal fasciculus

“…To assess famous face processing, G.S. was administered the Famous face recognition and naming test (Rizzo et al, 2002), that evaluates both visual recognition of known people and verbal recognition of their names. As for visual recognition, the test included 50 photographs depicting famous people randomly intermingled with 50 pictures of unknown people.…”

Functional MRI mapping of category-specific sites associated with naming of famous faces, animals and man-made objects

“…In addition, patients with brain lesions may show selective impairment of face recognition versus the recognition of objects, and the opposite pattern has also been described. The double dissociation implies that different brain regions are recruited for the recognition of faces and other types of visual objects [22][23][24][25][26] .…”