Integration of a voice recognition route within IAC

Stevenage, Sarah and Hugill, Andrew (2009) Integration of a voice recognition route within IAC. British Psychological Society Cognitive Section Annual Conference, Hertford, United Kingdom. 01 - 03 Sep 2009.

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Abstract

Research Objectives: within an IAC framework, voice recognition and face recognition may usefully be viewed as parallel pathways. The demonstration of cross-modality priming of voices by faces and vice versa would add weight to such a view.

Design: repetition priming of celebrity individuals was examined under within-modality and cross-modality conditions.

Method: sixty participants completed a 2-stage method involving semantic decisions to celebrities at study, and speeded familiarity decisions to primed and unprimed celebrities at test.

Results: expected within-modality priming effects emerged: Faces primed subsequent face recognition, and voices primed subsequent voice recognition. Additionally, voices successfully primed face recognition, however, faces did not prime subsequent voice recognition.

Conclusions: the emergence of cross-modality priming adds support to the integration of voice recognition within a person perception model such as IAC. Results are discussed with respect to the relative strength of face and voice inputs in these two parallel pathways

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