Recalling semantic information about personally known faces and voices

Brédart, Serge; Barsics, Catherine; Hanley, J. Richard

doi:10.1080/09541440802591821

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“…This face advantage has been demonstrated with famous faces and voices (Barsics & Brédart, 2012b;Damjanovic & Hanley, 2007;Hanley & Damjanovic, 2009;Hanley et al, 1998), with personally familiar faces and voices (Brédart et al, 2009;Barsics & Brédart, 2011), as well as with newly learned faces and voices (Barsics & Brédart, 2012a). In addition, this robust phenomenon occurs regardless of whether the domain of stimuli (faces vs. voices) is a between-participants or a within-participants factor, and it remains stable even when the overall recognizability of faces and voices is pre-experimentally equated.…”

Section: Explaining the Face Advantagementioning

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“…All the studies that have applied appropriate methodological controls have consistently shown a face advantage over voice, both in terms of a better access to semantic information from faces than from voices (Brédart et al, 2009;Hanley & Damjanovic, 2009;Hanley et al, 1998), and in terms of a better access to episodic information from faces than from voices (Barsics & Brédart, 2011;Damjanovic & Hanley, 2007). This face advantage has been demonstrated with famous faces and voices (Barsics & Brédart, 2012b;Damjanovic & Hanley, 2007;Hanley & Damjanovic, 2009;Hanley et al, 1998), with personally familiar faces and voices (Brédart et al, 2009;Barsics & Brédart, 2011), as well as with newly learned faces and voices (Barsics & Brédart, 2012a).…”

Section: Explaining the Face Advantagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Consequently, the connections between VRUs and PINs might benefit from less time and opportunity to strengthen through repeated exposures, in comparison with FRUs and PINs. This was the reason why we resorted to the use personally familiar stimuli in order to compare the access to semantic and episodic information from faces and voices (Brédart et al, 2009;Barsics & Brédart, 2011). When we meet personally familiar people, we usually both see and hear them.…”

Section: Explaining the Face Advantagementioning

confidence: 99%

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Person Recognition Is Easier from Faces than from Voices

Barsics

2014

Psychologica Belgica

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When we recognize a person, we can retrieve different kinds of information about her/ him: semantic information (e.g., the person's occupation), episodic information, such as a memory of a specific occasion on which this person has previously been encountered and finally, lexical information (i.e., the person's name). During the last three decades, most research investigating person recognition has mainly investigated access to semantic and lexical information from faces, building on the Bruce and Young's (1986) seminal model of face processing.However, other cues to person identity, such as gesture, gait, body shape, and voice, deserve to receive more attention, at least because in some cases facial information is not available while the correct identification of the person is of crucial importance.Moreover, in everyday social interactions, the face is rarely the only cue available to identify a person. A growing number of studies now aim at complementing existing models of person recognition by characterizing the mechanisms of multi-modal information integration (for a recent review, see Schwartz, 2014). In this line, some models of person recognition, endeavoring to encompass the fundamentally multi-modal nature of person recognition, have integrated a voice recognition pathway in their architecture (Belin, Fecteau, & Bédard, 2004;Campanella & Belin, 2007;Ellis, Jones, & Mosdell, 1997).In the present paper, we review a number of studies that systematically compared the access to semantic and episodic information following the recognition of faces and voices. These studies have faced distinct methodological difficulties inherent to the necessity of establishing appropriate ways of comparing voice and face recognition, and of adapting to the specific use of voice stimuli (see INVITED REVIEW Person Recognition Is Easier from Faces than from VoicesCatherine Barsics * * Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva-CISA, Geneva, Switzerland catherine.barsics@unige.ch Barsics, C. (2014 This article reviews a number of recent studies that systematically compared the access to semantic and episodic information from faces and voices. Results have showed that semantic and episodic information is easier to retrieve from faces than from voices. This advantage of faces over voices is a robust phenomenon, which emerges whatever the kind of target persons, might they be famous, personally familiar to the participants, or newly learned. Theoretical accounts of this face advantage over voice are finally discussed.

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Section: Explaining the Face Advantagementioning

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Section: Explaining the Face Advantagementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Explaining the Face Advantagementioning

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Person Recognition Is Easier from Faces than from Voices

Barsics

2014

Psychologica Belgica

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“…In addition, when care is taken to balance recognition levels through blurring the faces, the capacity to retrieve semantic information about an individual remains substantially weaker when presented with the voice rather than the face. Notably, this remains the case when trying to retrieve semantic details about celebrities (Hanley & Damjanovic, 2009;Hanley, Smith & Hadfield, 1998), personally familiar individuals (Barsics & Brédart, 2011;Brédart, Barsics & Hanley, 2009) or newly learned individuals (Barsics & Brédart, 2012a).…”

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Hearing Faces and Seeing Voices: The Integration and Interaction of Face and Voice Processing

2014

Psychologica Belgica

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“…For example, although familiar persons are not as readily identifiable from their voice as their face (see e.g., Brédart, Barsics, & Hanley, 2009), voice cues may provide an important source of information for identification when visual information is less reliable (e.g., Hanley & Turner, 2000), such as when a person is far away. More specifically, it is suggested that voice information converges with face information relatively late in information processing, in a supramodal module representing all information about a person (i.e., person identity node or PIN).…”

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