Title
Practice and incentive motivation in recognition of inverted faces
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2003
Abstract
In each of three experiments, participants received successive daily practice sessions on the task of recognizing inverted faces. In all practice sessions, an initial study series of 25 inverted faces was followed immediately by a test series of 17 pairs of inverted faces. Each test pair comprised a face from the study series and a new face. Completely new sets of faces were used in each session. Recognition of inverted faces did not improve across sessions in Exp. 1 but did improve in Exps. 2 and 3. Unlike Exp. 1, Exps. 2 and 3 employed an explicit incentive for improved performance. These results show that sufficiently motivated participants can become quite proficient at recognizing inverted faces. Implications of the results for the role of expertise at recognition in producing the inversion effect are discussed.
DOI
10.2466/pms.2003.96.2.578
First Page
578
Last Page
588
Volume
96
Issue
2
Publication Title
Perceptual and Motor Skills
ISSN
00315125
Recommended Citation
Haggbloom, S. J., & Warnick, J. E. (2003). Practice and Incentive Motivation in Recognition of Inverted Faces. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 96(2), 578–588. https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.2003.96.2.578
Comments
At the time of publication, Jason E. Warnick was affiliated with Arkansas State University.