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Intra‐ and inter‐modal repetition priming of familiar faces and voices
Author(s) -
Ellis Hadyn D.,
Jones Dylan M.,
Mosdell Nick
Publication year - 1997
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.2044-8295.1997.tb02625.x
Subject(s) - psychology , priming (agriculture) , repetition (rhetorical device) , repetition priming , task (project management) , cognitive psychology , face (sociological concept) , modal , social psychology , communication , cognition , linguistics , lexical decision task , neuroscience , chemistry , philosophy , botany , germination , management , polymer chemistry , economics , biology
Two experiments explored repetition priming for familiar voices and faces. Expt 1 revealed that, like faces, prior exposure to a voice in a gender judgment task speeds its subsequent classification as familiar or unfamiliar, some minutes later. Faces and voices do not prime one another, however; a result consistent with the notion that evidence is initially accumulated separately for voices and faces. In Expt 2, a prediction derived from the IAC model of Burton, Bruce & Johnston (1990) was explored. The results confirmed that inter‐modal repetition priming occurs when the interval between exposures to different personal identification stimuli are separated by a short SOA. This result is consistent with similar ones reported by Calder (1993) and Young, Flude, Hellawell & Ellis (1994) for face‐name combinations.