INTRA-MODAL AND INTER-MODAL REPETITION PRIMING OF FAMILIAR FACES AND VOICES

Two experiments explored repetition priming for familiar voices and fa ces. 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 a nother, however; a result consistent with the notion that evidence is initially accumulated separately for voices and faces. In Expt 2, a pr ediction derived from the IAC model of Burton, Bruce & Johnston (1990) was explored. The results confirmed that inter-modal repetition primi ng occurs when the interval between exposures to different personal id entification stimuli are separated by a short SOA. This result is cons istent with similar ones reported by Calder (1993) and Young, Flude, H ellawell Be Ellis (1994) for face-name combinations.