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Memory‐related ERP components for experimentally learned faces and names: Characteristics and parallel‐test reliabilities
Author(s) -
Herzmann Grit,
Sommer Werner
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2007.00505.x
Subject(s) - psychology , n400 , repetition (rhetorical device) , cognitive psychology , repetition priming , recognition memory , priming (agriculture) , event related potential , semantic memory , scalp , facial recognition system , electroencephalography , cognition , pattern recognition (psychology) , neuroscience , linguistics , lexical decision task , philosophy , botany , germination , biology , medicine , anatomy
Previous research with preexperimentally familiar faces and names has identified several memory‐related components in the event‐related potential (ERP). Here we aimed to characterize these components while controlling the quality of long‐term memory with a standardized learning procedure for unfamiliar faces and names. After 1 week, recognition was tested in a repetition priming paradigm. Both early repetition effects (ERE/N250r) and old/new effects had very similar time course and domain‐related scalp topographies as has been reported for preexperimentally familiar stimuli. The late repetition effects (LRE/N400) showed domain‐specific scalp topographies, possibly reflecting the greater ease of deriving semantic codes from faces. Importantly, parallel‐test reliabilities of performance and memory‐related ERP components were high, thus demonstrating the utility of face learning for formal assessment procedures in person recognition.