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- Title
- Face ethnicity and measurement reliability affect face recognition performance in developmental prosopagnosia : evidence from the Cambridge Face Memory Test-Australian
- Related
- Cognitive neuropsychology, Vol. 28, Issue 2, (2011), p.109-146
- DOI
- 10.1080/02643294.2011.616880
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Date
- 2011
- Author/Creator
- McKone, Elinor
- Author/Creator
- Hall, Ashleigh
- Author/Creator
- Pidcock, Madeleine
- Author/Creator
- Palermo, Romina
- Author/Creator
- Wilkinson, Ross B
- Author/Creator
- Rivolta, Davide
- Author/Creator
- Yovel, Galit
- Author/Creator
- Davis, Joshua M
- Author/Creator
- O'Connor, Kirsty B
- Description
- The Cambridge Face Memory Test (CFMT, Duchaine & Nakayama, 2006) provides a validated format for testing novel face learning and has been a crucial instrument in the diagnosis of developmental prosopagnosia. Yet, some individuals who report everyday face recognition symptoms consistent with prosopagnosia, and are impaired on famous face tasks, perform normally on the CFMT. Possible reasons include measurement error, CFMT assessment of memory only at short delays, and a face set whose ethnicity is matched to only some Caucasian groups. We develop the "CFMT-Australian" (CFMT-Aus), which complements the CFMT-original by using ethnicity bette r matched to a different European subpopulation. Results confirm reliability (.88) and validity (convergent, divergent using cars, inversion effects). We show that face ethnicity within a race has subtle but clear effects on face processing even in normal participants (includes cross-over interaction for face ethnicity by perceiver country of origin in distinctiveness ratings). We show that CFMT-Aus clarifies diagnosis of prosopagnosia in 6 previously ambiguous cases. In 3 cases, this appears due to the better ethnic match to prosopagnosics. We also show that face memory at short (,3-min), 20-min, and 24-hr delays taps overlapping processes in normal participants. There is some suggestion that aform of prosopagnosia may exist that is long delay only and/or reflects failure to benefit from face repetition.
- Description
- 38 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- 170100 Psychology
- Subject Keyword
- Developmental prosopagnosia
- Subject Keyword
- Ethnicity
- Subject Keyword
- Face recognition
- Subject Keyword
- Measurement error
- Subject Keyword
- Memory delay
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/153352
- Identifier
- mq:17165
- Identifier
- ISSN:0264-3294
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2011004006
- Identifier
- mq_res-ext-2-s2.0-83055163380
- Language
- eng
- Reviewed
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