REPETITION PRIMING FOR FACE SPEECH IMAGES - SPEECH-READING PRIMES FACE IDENTIFICATION

Citation
R. Campbell et Ehf. Dehaan, REPETITION PRIMING FOR FACE SPEECH IMAGES - SPEECH-READING PRIMES FACE IDENTIFICATION, British journal of psychology, 89, 1998, pp. 309-323
Citations number
34
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology
ISSN journal
00071269
Volume
89
Year of publication
1998
Part
2
Pages
309 - 323
Database
ISI
SICI code
0007-1269(1998)89:<309:RPFFSI>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
Does speech-reading (classifying a facial image in terms of speech-sou nd) proceed independently of other face-reading skills? Repetition pri ming of face images was used to address this question. Earlier studies established that identity-based decisions are sensitive to earlier ex posure of images of a well-known person, but that face-reading tasks s uch as expression or age classification may not be. We extended the re petition priming paradigm to speech-reading and in three experiments e stablished that (a) identity decisions for personally familiar faces w ere sensitive to a previous image of that person's face making a speec h-sound (identity decisions were primed by speech-reading), (b) speech -sound ma:ching vas not faster for known faces seen earlier in a diffe rent task (speech-reading was not primed by identification). We also f ound some evidence that knowledge of familiar faces could interfere wi th classification of face images for speech (unfamiliar faces were spe ech read faster) and that repeating a speech-classification task could give rise to form rather than face-based priming. These findings are discussed in relation to the separability of speech-reading from other face processing tasks.