TY - JOUR
T1 - The relationship between discrimination and memory for spacing and feature changes in houses
AU - Robbins, Rachel A.
AU - Lewis, Terri L.
AU - Maurer, Daphne
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Adults need to discriminate between stimuli and recognize those previously seen. For faces, feature changes (e.g., different eyes) and spacing changes (e.g., distances between eyes) are important cues. In two experiments, we assessed the influence of these on discrimination and recognition of houses, a commonly used control in face studies. In both experiments, discrimination was better for feature than spacing changes. Memory for spacing changes was generally poor but aided by extra learning and intermixing change types. Conversely, memory for features was good, especially when there were few houses, and change type was blocked. Unexpectedly, memory was best for differences that might signal something about occupants (e.g., changes to garden or bins), perhaps akin to hairstyles for faces. Overall, results are consistent with previous work showing poor discrimination of spacing in non-face objects and extends them to show that, unlike for faces, spacing differences are also not well remembered.
AB - Adults need to discriminate between stimuli and recognize those previously seen. For faces, feature changes (e.g., different eyes) and spacing changes (e.g., distances between eyes) are important cues. In two experiments, we assessed the influence of these on discrimination and recognition of houses, a commonly used control in face studies. In both experiments, discrimination was better for feature than spacing changes. Memory for spacing changes was generally poor but aided by extra learning and intermixing change types. Conversely, memory for features was good, especially when there were few houses, and change type was blocked. Unexpectedly, memory was best for differences that might signal something about occupants (e.g., changes to garden or bins), perhaps akin to hairstyles for faces. Overall, results are consistent with previous work showing poor discrimination of spacing in non-face objects and extends them to show that, unlike for faces, spacing differences are also not well remembered.
KW - adulthood
KW - discrimination
KW - face
KW - housing
KW - memory
UR - http://handle.westernsydney.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:47008
U2 - 10.1080/00221309.2018.1442313
DO - 10.1080/00221309.2018.1442313
M3 - Article
SN - 0022-1309
VL - 145
SP - 153
EP - 169
JO - Journal of General Psychology
JF - Journal of General Psychology
IS - 2
ER -