Assessing Individual Differences in Face Recognition: No Impact of Task Design Features on the Structure of This Ability.
The ability to remember faces is essential for everyday life, with deficits indicative of some neurological conditions. Face recognition ability tasks vary considerably in their design (i.e., use of the same or a different picture for learning and recall and inclusion or exclusion of nonface charact...
| Publicado en: | Psychological Assessment Vol. 34; no. 12; pp. 1172 - 1180 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=161849411&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 161849411 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10403590 POL jtl: Psychological Assessment issn: 10403590 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2022 vid: 34 iid: 12 pid: 34 pub: American Psychological Association artinfo: ui: 161849411 10.1037/pas0001173 ppf: 1172 ppct: 8 formats: tig: atl: Assessing Individual Differences in Face Recognition: No Impact of Task Design Features on the Structure of This Ability. aug: au: Olderbak, Sally Pollak, Katja Sanchez, Juan F. Hildebrandt, Andrea affil: Institute of Psychology and Pedagogy, Ulm University Department of Psychology, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg su: Memory Task performance Face perception Photography Descriptive statistics Factor analysis Research funding Cognitive testing sug: subj: Memory Task performance Face perception Photography Descriptive statistics Factor analysis Research funding Cognitive testing keyword: ability structure confirmatory factor analysis external facial features face recognition image recognition ability structure confirmatory factor analysis external facial features face recognition image recognition ab: The ability to remember faces is essential for everyday life, with deficits indicative of some neurological conditions. Face recognition ability tasks vary considerably in their design (i.e., use of the same or a different picture for learning and recall and inclusion or exclusion of nonface characteristics), which is known to impact performance levels. However, it is unknown whether these design features cause additional cognitive abilities to be assessed. We preregistered three hypotheses, namely performance on face recognition tasks can best be explained by: (Hypothesis 1) a single general face recognition ability; (Hypothesis 2) a general face recognition ability and an unrelated ability representing one's capacity to ignore external information when recognizing faces; and (Hypothesis 3) a general face recognition ability, a separable unrelated ability to ignore external information, and a third unrelated ability representing one's capacity to recognize faces specifically when different photographs of the same individual are used. During a controlled laboratory session, N = 176 adults (M = 25.52 years) completed 16 face recognition tasks that comprised different versions of the aforementioned task designs. With confirmatory factor analysis, we found support for Hypothesis 1, indicating that the rank order of participants regarding their face recognition ability does not meaningfully differ due to the different task designs, indicating additional abilities are not needed. Public Significance Statement: While face recognition tasks employ a variety of design features, we found that these different designs do not result in a different set of abilities being assessed. Regardless of whether tests use the same picture or a different picture during learning and recall, or do or do not include external features in the images like hair, only a single general face recognition ability is assessed. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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