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Super-Memorizers Are Not Super-Recognizers.

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Ramon, M., Miellet, S., Dzieciol, A.M., Konrad, B.N., Dresler, M. and Caldara, R., 2016. Super-Memorizers Are Not Super-Recognizers. PLoS One, 11 (3), 1-24.

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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0150972

Abstract

Humans have a natural expertise in recognizing faces. However, the nature of the interaction between this critical visual biological skill and memory is yet unclear. Here, we had the unique opportunity to test two individuals who have had exceptional success in the World Memory Championships, including several world records in face-name association memory. We designed a range of face processing tasks to determine whether superior/expert face memory skills are associated with distinctive perceptual strategies for processing faces. Superior memorizers excelled at tasks involving associative face-name learning. Nevertheless, they were as impaired as controls in tasks probing the efficiency of the face system: face inversion and the other-race effect. Super memorizers did not show increased hippocampal volumes, and exhibited optimal generic eye movement strategies when they performed complex multi-item face-name associations. Our data show that the visual computations of the face system are not malleable and are robust to acquired expertise involving extensive training of associative memory.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:1932-6203
Group:Faculty of Science & Technology
ID Code:23353
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:29 Mar 2016 09:41
Last Modified:14 Mar 2022 13:55

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