Speak My Language and I Will Remember Your Face Better: An ERP Study
Here we investigated how the language in which a person addresses us, native or foreign, influences subsequent face recognition. In an old/new paradigm, we explored the behavioral and electrophysiological activity associated with face recognition memory. Participants were first presented with faces...
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doaj-e8e1c2f7b4b046d0adc6020f216cd9a72020-11-24T20:46:03ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782017-05-01810.3389/fpsyg.2017.00709229256Speak My Language and I Will Remember Your Face Better: An ERP StudyCristina Baus0Jesús Bas1Marco Calabria2Albert Costa3Albert Costa4Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu FabraBarcelona, SpainCenter for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu FabraBarcelona, SpainCenter for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu FabraBarcelona, SpainCenter for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu FabraBarcelona, SpainInstitució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis AvançatsBarcelona, SpainHere we investigated how the language in which a person addresses us, native or foreign, influences subsequent face recognition. In an old/new paradigm, we explored the behavioral and electrophysiological activity associated with face recognition memory. Participants were first presented with faces accompanied by voices speaking either in their native (NL) or foreign language (FL). Faces were then presented in isolation and participants decided whether the face was presented before (old) or not (new). The results revealed that participants were more accurate at remembering faces previously paired with their native as opposed to their FL. At the event-related potential (ERP) level, we obtained evidence that faces in the NL were differently encoded from those in the FL condition, potentially due to differences in processing demands. During recognition, the frontal old/new effect was present (with a difference in latency) regardless of the language with which a face was associated, while the parietal old/new effect appeared only for faces associated with the native language. These results suggest that the language of our social interactions has an impact on the memory processes underlying the recognition of individuals.http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00709/fullforeign languagesocial categorizationface recognitionold/new ERP effectsfamiliarityrecollection |
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Speak My Language and I Will Remember Your Face Better: An ERP Study |
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Speak My Language and I Will Remember Your Face Better: An ERP Study |
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Frontiers in Psychology |
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Here we investigated how the language in which a person addresses us, native or foreign, influences subsequent face recognition. In an old/new paradigm, we explored the behavioral and electrophysiological activity associated with face recognition memory. Participants were first presented with faces accompanied by voices speaking either in their native (NL) or foreign language (FL). Faces were then presented in isolation and participants decided whether the face was presented before (old) or not (new). The results revealed that participants were more accurate at remembering faces previously paired with their native as opposed to their FL. At the event-related potential (ERP) level, we obtained evidence that faces in the NL were differently encoded from those in the FL condition, potentially due to differences in processing demands. During recognition, the frontal old/new effect was present (with a difference in latency) regardless of the language with which a face was associated, while the parietal old/new effect appeared only for faces associated with the native language. These results suggest that the language of our social interactions has an impact on the memory processes underlying the recognition of individuals. |
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foreign language social categorization face recognition old/new ERP effects familiarity recollection |
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