Recognition memory and Event-Related Potentials: The role of pre-existing representations in recollection of faces - Softcover

MacKenzie, Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3844328408 ISBN 13: 9783844328400

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Dual-process models of recognition memory propose that recognition memory can be supported by either a general sense of familiarity or the recollection of the encoding context. One source of evidence supporting dual-process models comes from event- related potential (ERP) studies of recognition memory, which have identified distinct patterns of neural activity associated with familiarity and recollection (the mid frontal and left parietal old/new effects, respectively). In this thesis, dual- process accounts of recognition memory were investigated in a series of ERP studies using three categories of stimulus: previously unknown faces, famous faces, and names. For previously unknown faces, familiarity was associated with activity over posterior scalp electrodes while recollection was associated with topographically dissociable activity over anterior electrodes. These dissociable patterns of activity support dual-process models.

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About the Author

Graham MacKenzie studied at the University of Stirling where he graduated in 2004 with a BA in Psychology and in 2008 with a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience. He then worked at the University of Glasgow on a project investigating face recognition and moved to the University of Edinburgh in 2009 to work as a teaching fellow in visual cognition.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3844328408
• ISBN 13: 9783844328400
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232