Effects of Faces and Voices on the Encoding of Biographic InformationShow others and affiliations
2022 (English)In: Brain Sciences, E-ISSN 2076-3425, Vol. 12, no 12, article id 1716Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
There are multiple forms of knowledge about people. Whether diverse person-related data interact is of interest regarding the more general issue of integration of multi-source information about the world. Our goal was to examine whether perception of a persons face or voice enhanced the encoding of their biographic data. We performed three experiments. In the first experiment, subjects learned the biographic data of a character with or without a video clip of their face. In the second experiment, they learned the characters data with an audio clip of either a generic narrators voice or the characters voice relating the same biographic information. In the third experiment, an audiovisual clip of both the face and voice of either a generic narrator or the character accompanied the learning of biographic data. After learning, a test phase presented biographic data alone, and subjects were tested first for familiarity and second for matching of biographic data to the name. The results showed equivalent learning of biographic data across all three experiments, and none showed evidence that a characters face or voice enhanced the learning of biographic information. We conclude that the simultaneous processing of perceptual representations of people may not modulate the encoding of biographic data.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
MDPI , 2022. Vol. 12, no 12, article id 1716
Keywords [en]
semantic; memory; learning; person; facilitation
National Category
Media Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-191222DOI: 10.3390/brainsci12121716ISI: 000902238800001PubMedID: 36552175OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-191222DiVA, id: diva2:1731123
Note
Funding Agencies|Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council [RGPIN 319129]; Canada Research Chair [950-228984]; Marianne Koerner Chair in Brain Diseases; National Eye Institute [F32 EY023479-02]
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