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- Title
Toward a comprehensive test battery for face cognition: Assessment of the tasks.
- Authors
Herzmann, Grit; Danthiir, Vanessa; Schacht, Annekathrin; Sommer, Werner; Wilhelm, Oliver
- Abstract
Despite the importance of face recognition in everyday life and frequent complaints about its failure, there is no comprehensive test battery for this ability. As a first step in constructing such a battery, we present 18 tasks aimed at measuring face perception, face learning, face recognition, and the recognition of facially expressed emotions. A sample of 153 healthy young adults completed all tasks. In general, reaction time measures showed high estimates of internal consistency; tasks focused on performance accuracy yielded reliabilities that were somewhat lower, yet high enough to support their use in a battery of face cognition measures. Some of the tasks allowed computation of established experimental effects in a within-subjects design, such as the part-whole effect. Most of these experimental effects were confirmed in our large sample, and valuable effect size estimates were obtained. However, in many cases these difference measures showed poor estimates of internal consistency.
- Subjects
FACE perception; EVALUATION; LEARNING; FACIAL expression; RESEARCH methodology
- Publication
Behavior Research Methods, 2008, Vol 40, Issue 3, p840
- ISSN
1554-351X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/BRM.40.3.840