http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/services/Feed ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 The Disproportionate Face Inversion Effect in recognition memory http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:11037 The Disproportionate Face Inversion Effect (DFIE), the finding that inversion disproportionately affects face recognition, provides a primary piece of evidence to suggest that faces are processed in a qualitatively different way to other visual stimuli (i.e., along configural as well as featural dimensions). However, when Loftus, Oberg and Dillon (2004; also Prince and Heathcote, 2009) examined the DFIE using state-trace analysis (Bamber, 1979) they found evidence for a one-dimensional encoding of unfamiliar faces when inversion only occurred during the study phase of a recognition memory task. We further examine this one dimensional result with more precise individual measurement and more specifically, Prince and Heathcote’s suggestion that the use of configural encoding may not be automatic in recognition memory. 2012-07-03T02:17:49.266Z ]]> State-trace analysis of the Face Inversion Effect http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:8982 The Face Inversion Effect (FIE), the finding that inversion disproportionately affects face recognition, is one of the primary pieces of evidence suggesting that faces are encoded in a qualitatively different way to other stimuli (e.g., along configural as well as featural dimensions). However, when Loftus, Oberg and Dillon (2004) tested the FIE using state-trace analysis (Bamber, 1979), they found evidence for a one dimensional encoding of unfamiliar faces when inversion only occurred during the study phase of a recognition memory test. We report experimental results that replicate Loftus et al.’s findings and rule out several potential problems with their experimental manipulations and state-trace analysis. 2011-09-16T05:40:40.006Z ]]>