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European Journal of Cognitive Psychology | 2009

Recalling semantic information about personally known faces and voices

Serge Brédart; Catherine Barsics; Rick Hanley

Previous research that investigated whether biographical information about familiar people is harder to retrieve from voices than from faces produced contrasting results. However, studies that used a strict control of the content of spoken extracts reported that semantic information about familiar people is easier to retrieve when recognising a face than when recognising a voice. In all previous studies faces and voices of famous people were used as stimuli. In the present study, personally familiar peoples voices and faces (standard faces and blurred faces) were used. Presenting such people (i.e., participants’ teachers) allowed controlling still more strictly the content of the spoken extracts since it was possible to ask all the target persons to speak the same words. In addition, it was previously stressed that we encounter famous peoples faces in the media more frequently than we hear their voice. This methodological difficulty was presumably reduced when teachers’ faces were presented. Present results showed a significant decrease in retrieval of biographical information from familiar voices relative to blurred faces even though the level of overall recognition was similar for blurred faces and voices. The role of the relative distinctiveness of voices and faces is discussed and further investigation is proposed.


Consciousness and Cognition | 2011

Recalling episodic information about personally known faces and voices

Catherine Barsics; Serge Brédart

This study was aimed at investigating whether the retrieval of episodic information is more likely to be associated with the recognition of personally familiar faces than voices. Hence, the proportions of episodic memories recalled following the recognition of personally known faces and voices was assessed, using a modified version of the Remember/Know paradigm. Present findings showed that episodic information was more often retrieved from familiar faces than from familiar voices. Furthermore, this advantage of faces over voices was significant even when face recognition was rendered similar as that for voices by blurring the faces. The same pattern of results was observed regarding semantic information retrieval (i.e. the target persons occupation). These results and their implications for person recognition models, as well as the potential role of the relative distinctiveness of faces and voices, are discussed.


Memory | 2012

Recalling semantic information about newly learned faces and voices

Catherine Barsics; Serge Brédart

Several findings showed that semantic information is more likely to be retrieved from recognised faces than from recognised voices. Earlier experiments, which investigated the recall of biographical information following person recognition, used stimuli that were pre-experimentally familiar to the participants, such as famous peoples voices and faces. We propose an alternative method to compare the participants’ ability to associate semantic information with faces and voices. The present experiments allowed a very strict control of frequency of exposure to pre-experimentally unfamiliar faces and voices and ensured the absence of identity clues in the spoken extracts. In Experiment 1 semantic information was retrieved from the presentation of a name. In Experiment 2 semantic and lexical information was retrieved from faces and/or voices. A memory advantage for faces over voices was again observed.


Journal of cognitive psychology | 2012

Access to semantic and episodic information from faces and voices: Does distinctiveness matter?

Catherine Barsics; Serge Brédart

This study was aimed at investigating the role of stimulus distinctiveness on the retrieval of semantic and episodic information from familiar faces and voices. Distinctiveness of famous faces and voices was manipulated in order to assess its role as a potential underlying factor of face superiority. In line with previous findings, more semantic and episodic information was retrieved from faces than from voices. Semantic information was better retrieved from distinctive than from typical stimuli. Nevertheless, distinctiveness seemed to impact less than stimulus domain on the recall of semantic details. Indeed, more semantic information was retrieved from typical faces than from distinctive voices. The consistency of these results with current models of person recognition is discussed.


Current Directions in Psychological Science | 2012

Recalling Semantic and Episodic Information From Faces and Voices A Face Advantage

Serge Brédart; Catherine Barsics

Recent studies have demonstrated that the retrieval of biographical information about familiar people is easier when we see their faces than when we hear their voices. This advantage of faces over voices has been observed for the retrieval of semantic information (e.g., a person’s occupation) as well as for the recall of episodic information (e.g., specific memories associated with a person). In this article, we outline a recent progression of studies that have demonstrated this advantage of faces over voices by comparing the retrieval of semantic and episodic information following person recognition from faces and from voices. We show that the face advantage is a robust phenomenon that persists whatever the type of target persons (celebrities, personally familiar people, or newly learned persons).


Current Directions in Psychological Science | 2012

Recalling semantic and episodic information for faces and voices: A face advantage

Serge Brédart; Catherine Barsics

Recent studies have demonstrated that the retrieval of biographical information about familiar people is easier when we see their faces than when we hear their voices. This advantage of faces over voices has been observed for the retrieval of semantic information (e.g., a person’s occupation) as well as for the recall of episodic information (e.g., specific memories associated with a person). In this article, we outline a recent progression of studies that have demonstrated this advantage of faces over voices by comparing the retrieval of semantic and episodic information following person recognition from faces and from voices. We show that the face advantage is a robust phenomenon that persists whatever the type of target persons (celebrities, personally familiar people, or newly learned persons).


Current Directions in Psychological Science | 2012

Recalling Semantic and Episodic Information From Faces and Voices

Serge Brédart; Catherine Barsics

Recent studies have demonstrated that the retrieval of biographical information about familiar people is easier when we see their faces than when we hear their voices. This advantage of faces over voices has been observed for the retrieval of semantic information (e.g., a person’s occupation) as well as for the recall of episodic information (e.g., specific memories associated with a person). In this article, we outline a recent progression of studies that have demonstrated this advantage of faces over voices by comparing the retrieval of semantic and episodic information following person recognition from faces and from voices. We show that the face advantage is a robust phenomenon that persists whatever the type of target persons (celebrities, personally familiar people, or newly learned persons).


COMPUTING ANTICIPATORY SYSTEMS: CASYS ‘09: Ninth International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems | 2010

Familiar person recognition: Is autonoetic consciousness more likely to accompany face recognition than voice recognition?

Catherine Barsics; Serge Brédart

Autonoetic consciousness is a fundamental property of human memory, enabling us to experience mental time travel, to recollect past events with a feeling of self‐involvement, and to project ourselves in the future. Autonoetic consciousness is a characteristic of episodic memory. By contrast, awareness of the past associated with a mere feeling of familiarity or knowing relies on noetic consciousness, depending on semantic memory integrity. Present research was aimed at evaluating whether conscious recollection of episodic memories is more likely to occur following the recognition of a familiar face than following the recognition of a familiar voice. Recall of semantic information (biographical information) was also assessed. Previous studies that investigated the recall of biographical information following person recognition used faces and voices of famous people as stimuli. In this study, the participants were presented with personally familiar people’s voices and faces, thus avoiding the presence of identity cues in the spoken extracts and allowing a stricter control of frequency exposure with both types of stimuli (voices and faces). In the present study, the rate of retrieved episodic memories, associated with autonoetic awareness, was significantly higher from familiar faces than familiar voices even though the level of overall recognition was similar for both these stimuli domains. The same pattern was observed regarding semantic information retrieval. These results and their implications for current Interactive Activation and Competition person recognition models are discussed.


Archive | 2013

L'apprentissage d'auto-hypnose dans un problème de douleur chronique

Marie-Elisabeth Faymonville; Catherine Barsics; Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse; Anne-Sophie Nyssen


Perception | 2012

The retrieval of semantic and episodic information from faces and voices: A face advantage.

Catherine Barsics; Serge Brédart

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