Recalling semantic information about personally known faces and voices
Recalling semantic information about personally known faces and voices
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10.1080/09541440802591821
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2009-01-01
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Hanley, Rick
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作者：
Bredart, Serge;Barsics, Catherine;Hanley, Rick
先前的研究调查了熟悉的人的传记信息是否比面孔更难从声音中检索，得出了相反的结果。然而，严格控制口语摘录内容的研究报告称，识别人脸时比识别声音时更容易检索到熟悉人的语义信息。在以前的所有研究中，名人的面孔和声音都被用作刺激。在本研究中，个人熟悉的人的声音和面孔（标准面孔和模糊面孔）。介绍这些人（即，参与者的老师）允许更严格地控制口语摘录的内容，因为可以要求所有目标人物说同样的话。此外，之前有人强调，我们在媒体上遇到名人的面孔比听到他们的声音更频繁。当教师的面孔出现时，这种方法上的困难可能会减少。目前的研究结果表明，即使模糊的面孔和声音的整体识别水平是相似的，从熟悉的声音相对模糊的面孔的传记信息检索显着下降。声音和面孔的相对独特性的作用进行了讨论，并提出了进一步的调查。
Previous research that investigated whether biographical information about familiar people is harder to retrieve from voices than from faces produced contrasting results. However, studies that used a strict control of the content of spoken extracts reported that semantic information about familiar people is easier to retrieve when recognising a face than when recognising a voice. In all previous studies faces and voices of famous people were used as stimuli. In the present study, personally familiar people's voices and faces (standard faces and blurred faces) were used. Presenting such people (i.e., participants' teachers) allowed controlling still more strictly the content of the spoken extracts since it was possible to ask all the target persons to speak the same words. In addition, it was previously stressed that we encounter famous people's faces in the media more frequently than we hear their voice. This methodological difficulty was presumably reduced when teachers' faces were presented. Present results showed a significant decrease in retrieval of biographical information from familiar voices relative to blurred faces even though the level of overall recognition was similar for blurred faces and voices. The role of the relative distinctiveness of voices and faces is discussed and further investigation is proposed.