Materials and Procedure (Lander 2001): This test consisted of two Famous Face Recognition Test et al., counterbalanced sets of 15 male and 15 female celebrity faces, and 5 male and 5 female unknown faces taken approximately 12-years previously. The more recent media profile of the celebrities varied substantially, although no data of this were collected. Images were degraded by thresholding. Each face was shown for 5-sec, half (20); half (20). moving static If moving in Set A, a face was static in Set B and vice versa (80 trials). Participants provided a name or semantic information or stated they did not recognise the face. Famous face responses were categorised as participants provided correct names or individuating hits: information (e.g., for Angela Lansbury, - writer in the TV drama Murder She “a – Wrote” was accredited with a hit); incorrect names/information; or misidentifications: misses: failures to recognise the face, or non-individuating responses (e.g. With unknown “actress”). faces, responses were correctly identified as unfamiliar; or correct rejections: false alarms: incorrect names/identities. Participants were subsequently presented with a list of the celebrity names and asked whether they should have recognised them. Conditionalised (CNR) were calculated by excluding response data to a celebrity from analyses Naming Rates if the participant claimed they would not have recognised that face. The test stimuli were originally designed for a Unfamiliar Face Memory Array Test: face matching study (Bruce et al., 1999). In this design, across four counterbalanced memory versions, participants completed 40 trials in which a single colour white-Caucasian male image was displayed for 5-sec from a frontal perspective (20 faces) or a 30 degree angle (20 faces). Each was almost immediately followed by an array of 10 randomly arranged colour frontal same-day different-camera faces each marked with a number (1-10). Participants,
Materials and Procedure Famous Face Recognition Test (Lander et al., 2001): This test consisted of two counterbalanced sets of 15 male and 15 female celebrity faces, and 5 male and 5 female unknown faces taken approximately 12-years previously. The more recent media profile of the celebrities varied substantially, although no data of this were collected. Images were degraded by thresholding. Each face was shown for 5-sec, half moving (20); half static (20). If moving in Set A, a face was static in Set B and vice versa (80 trials). Participants provided a name or semantic information or stated they did not recognise the face. Famous face responses were categorised as hits: participants provided correct names or individuating information (e.g., for Angela Lansbury, - “a writer in the TV drama – Murder She Wrote” was accredited with a hit); misidentifications: incorrect names/information; or misses: failures to recognise the face, or non-individuating responses (e.g. “actress”). With unknown faces, responses were correct rejections: correctly identified as unfamiliar; or false alarms: incorrect names/identities. Participants were subsequently presented with a list of the celebrity names and asked whether they should have recognised them. Conditionalised Naming Rates (CNR) were calculated by excluding response data to a celebrity from analyses if the participant claimed they would not have recognised that face. Unfamiliar Face Memory Array Test: The test stimuli were originally designed for a face matching study (Bruce et al., 1999). In this memory design, across four counterbalanced versions, participants completed 40 trials in which a single colour white-Caucasian male image was displayed for 5-sec from a frontal perspective (20 faces) or a 30 degree angle (20 faces). Each was almost immediately followed by an array of 10 randomly arranged colour frontal same-day different-camera faces each marked with a number (1-10). Participants,
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