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Understanding face recognition with an interactive activation model
Author(s) -
Burton A. Mike,
Bruce Vicki,
Johnston Robert A.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1990.tb02367.x
Subject(s) - optimal distinctiveness theory , psychology , priming (agriculture) , cognitive psychology , repetition priming , face (sociological concept) , repetition (rhetorical device) , facial recognition system , cognitive science , social psychology , cognition , lexical decision task , linguistics , neuroscience , pattern recognition (psychology) , philosophy , botany , germination , biology
In this paper we describe how the microstructure of the Bruce & Young (1986) functional model of face recognition may be explored and extended using an interactive activation implementation. A simulation of the recognition of familiarity of individuals is developed which accounts for a range of published findings on the effects of semantic priming, repetition priming and distinctiveness. Finally, we offer some speculative predictions made by the model, and point to an empirical programme of research which it suggests.