Upright and inverted unfamiliar face-matching tasks – everything correlates everywhere all at once.
In a key study, Megreya and Burton (Memory & Cognition, 34, 865–876, 2006) argued that identity-matching tasks using unfamiliar faces may not effectively measure general 'real-world' face-processing ability – that is they are "not faces". They observed a high correlation in performance between uprig...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 53; no. 8; pp. 2556 - 2580 |
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