期刊
COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
卷 12, 期 1, 页码 161-174出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.3758/s13415-011-0063-9
关键词
Face processing; Biographical knowledge; ERPs
资金
- German Research Foundation [AB 277-1, AB 277-3, AB 277-5]
Although the amount or scale of biographical knowledge held in store about a person may differ widely, little is known about whether and how these differences may affect the retrieval processes triggered by the person's face. In a learning paradigm, we manipulated the scale of biographical knowledge while controlling for a common set of minimal knowledge and perceptual experience with the faces. A few days after learning, and again after 6 months, knowledge effects were assessed in three tasks, none of which concerned the additional knowledge. Whereas the performance effects of additional knowledge were small, event-related brain potentials recorded during testing showed amplitude modulations in the time range of the N400 component-indicative of knowledge access-but also at a much earlier latency in the P100 component-reflecting early stages of visual analysis. However, no effects were found in the N170 component, which is taken to reflect structural analyses of faces. The present findings replicate knowledge scale effects in object recognition and suggest that enhanced knowledge affects both early visual processes and the later processes associated with semantic processing, even when this knowledge is not task-relevant.
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