Memory for the Coincidence of Our Own Face Cover Image

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Memory for the Coincidence of Our Own Face

Author(s): Aleksandra Jankowska
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II

Summary/Abstract: The present work is relevant to the way in which and suboptimal expositions of human faces – one’s own and unknown – influence the memory for the objects, which coincidences it. The procedure presented here is a modification of Murphy’s and Zajonc’s (1994) experiments by examining the lasting memory for neutral stimuli, primed by faces. The obtained results show that supraliminal (4 ms) expositions of the photographs of human faces increase a recognition of following these faces with quasi-Japanese ideograms, but there are no differences between the memory effects of priming by our own face and the unknown face. The supraliminal (1 s) expositions of our own face decrease the memory for ideograms. Moreover, the investigation shows that supraliminal presentations of human, neutral faces result in a worse memory for ideograms, following them than do supraliminal presentation of these faces.

  • Issue Year: 3/2000
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 131-142
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish