Familiarity matters: A review on prioritized processing of personally familiar faces

doi:10.1080/13506285.2017.1405134

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Familiarity matters: A review on prioritized processing of personally familiar faces

Published Mar 16, 2018 · Meike Ramon, M. Gobbini

Visual Cognition

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Abstract

ABSTRACT In this review, we synthesize the existing literature investigating personally familiar face processing and highlight the remarkable, enhanced processing efficiency resulting from real-life experience. Highly learned identity-specific visual and semantic information associated with personally familiar face representations facilitates detection, recognition of identity and social cues, and activation of person knowledge. These optimizations afford qualitatively different processing of personally familiar as compared to unfamiliar faces, which manifests on both the behavioural and neural level.

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Key takeawayPersonally familiar faces are processed more efficiently than unfamiliar faces, enhancing detection, recognition, and activation of person knowledge.

PopulationOlder adults (50-71 years)

Sample size24

MethodsObservational

OutcomesBody Mass Index projections

ResultsSocial networks mitigate obesity in older groups.

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