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Professor Holger Wiese's Outputs (67)

The neural dynamics of familiar face recognition (2024)
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Wiese, H., Schweinberger, S. R., & Kovács, G. (2024). The neural dynamics of familiar face recognition. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 167, Article 105943. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105943

Humans are highly efficient at recognising familiar faces. However, previous EEG/ERP research has given a partial and fragmented account of the neural basis of this remarkable ability. We argue that this is related to insufficient consideration of fu... Read More about The neural dynamics of familiar face recognition.

The temporal dynamics of familiar face recognition: Event-related brain potentials reveal the efficient activation of facial identity representations (2024)
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Wiese, H., Popova, T., Lidborg, L. H., & Burton, A. M. (2024). The temporal dynamics of familiar face recognition: Event-related brain potentials reveal the efficient activation of facial identity representations. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 204, Article 112423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112423

While it is widely known that humans are typically highly accurate at recognizing familiar faces, it is less clear how efficiently recognition is achieved. In a series of three experiments, we used event-related brain potentials (ERP) in a repetition... Read More about The temporal dynamics of familiar face recognition: Event-related brain potentials reveal the efficient activation of facial identity representations.

The role of the eye region for neural correlates of familiar face recognition: The N250r reveals no evidence for eye-centred face representations (2023)
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Quinn, B. P., Popova, T., Green, P. C., Talfourd-Cook, R., & Wiese, H. (2023). The role of the eye region for neural correlates of familiar face recognition: The N250r reveals no evidence for eye-centred face representations. Visual Cognition, 31(7), 501-519. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2024.2315787

Humans recognize familiar faces highly accurately. However, it is unclear precisely what information is stored in the underlying long-term face representations. While some have emphaszsed the importance of the eye region, other evidence has shown tha... Read More about The role of the eye region for neural correlates of familiar face recognition: The N250r reveals no evidence for eye-centred face representations.

How neural representations of newly learnt faces change over time: Event-related brain potential evidence for overnight consolidation (2023)
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Wiese, H., Popova, T., Schipper, M., Zakriev, D., Burton, A. M., & Young, A. W. (2024). How neural representations of newly learnt faces change over time: Event-related brain potential evidence for overnight consolidation. Cortex, 171, 13-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2023.10.007

Previous experiments have shown that a brief encounter with a previously unfamiliar person leads to the establishment of new facial representations, which can be activated by completely novel pictures of the newly learnt face. The present study exami... Read More about How neural representations of newly learnt faces change over time: Event-related brain potential evidence for overnight consolidation.

Personal familiarity of faces, animals, objects, and scenes: Distinct perceptual and overlapping conceptual representations (2023)
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Wiese, H., Schipper, M., Popova, T., Burton, A. M., & Young, A. W. (2023). Personal familiarity of faces, animals, objects, and scenes: Distinct perceptual and overlapping conceptual representations. Cognition, 241, Article 105625. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105625

While face, object, and scene recognition are often studied at a basic categorization level (e.g. “a face”, “a car”, “a kitchen”), we frequently recognise individual items of these categories as unique entities (e.g. “my mother”, “my car”, “my kitche... Read More about Personal familiarity of faces, animals, objects, and scenes: Distinct perceptual and overlapping conceptual representations.

Developing familiarity during the first eight months of knowing a person: A longitudinal EEG study on face and identity learning (2023)
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Popova, T., & Wiese, H. (online). Developing familiarity during the first eight months of knowing a person: A longitudinal EEG study on face and identity learning. Cortex, 165, 26-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2023.04.008

It is well-established that familiar and unfamiliar faces are processed differently, but surprisingly little is known about how familiarity builds up over time and how novel faces gradually become represented in the brain. Here, we used event-related... Read More about Developing familiarity during the first eight months of knowing a person: A longitudinal EEG study on face and identity learning.

How quickly do we learn new faces in everyday life? Neurophysiological evidence for face identity learning after a brief real-life encounter (2023)
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Popova, T., & Wiese, H. (2023). How quickly do we learn new faces in everyday life? Neurophysiological evidence for face identity learning after a brief real-life encounter. Cortex, 159, 205-216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2022.12.005

Faces learnt in a single experimental session elicit a familiarity effect in event-related brain potentials (ERPs), with more negative amplitudes for newly learnt relative to unfamiliar faces in the N250 component. However, no ERP study has examined... Read More about How quickly do we learn new faces in everyday life? Neurophysiological evidence for face identity learning after a brief real-life encounter.

Characterizing the shared signals of face familiarity: long-term acquaintance, voluntary control, and concealed knowledge (2022)
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Dalski, A., Kovacs, G., Wiese, H., & Ambrus, G. G. (2022). Characterizing the shared signals of face familiarity: long-term acquaintance, voluntary control, and concealed knowledge. Brain Research, 1796, Article 148094. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2022.148094

In a recent study using cross-experiment multivariate classification of EEG patterns, we found evidence for a shared familiarity signal for faces, patterns of neural activity that successfully separate trials for familiar and unfamiliar faces across... Read More about Characterizing the shared signals of face familiarity: long-term acquaintance, voluntary control, and concealed knowledge.

Event-related brain potential correlates of the other-race effect: A review (2022)
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Tuettenberg, S. C., & Wiese, H. (2023). Event-related brain potential correlates of the other-race effect: A review. British Journal of Psychology, 114(S1), 23-44. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12591

People are better at remembering own-race relative to other-race faces. Here, we review event-related brain potential (ERP) correlates of this so-called other-‘race’ effect (ORE) by discussing three critical aspects that characterize the neural signa... Read More about Event-related brain potential correlates of the other-race effect: A review.

The time it takes to truly know someone: Neurophysiological correlates of face and identity learning during the first two years (2022)
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Popova, T., & Wiese, H. (2022). The time it takes to truly know someone: Neurophysiological correlates of face and identity learning during the first two years. Biological Psychology, 170, Article 108312. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108312

How long does it take to truly know a person? To answer this question, we investigated how event-related brain potential (ERP) correlates of facial familiarity (N250) and the integration of identity-specific knowledge (Sustained Familiarity Effect, S... Read More about The time it takes to truly know someone: Neurophysiological correlates of face and identity learning during the first two years.

The role of the eye region for familiar face recognition: Evidence from spatial low-pass filtering and contrast negation (2022)
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Quinn, B. P., & Wiese, H. (2023). The role of the eye region for familiar face recognition: Evidence from spatial low-pass filtering and contrast negation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76(2), 338-349. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221085990

What information is used for familiar face recognition? While previous research suggests a particular importance of the eye region, information from the rest of the face also needs to be integrated. What type of information is used in conjunction wit... Read More about The role of the eye region for familiar face recognition: Evidence from spatial low-pass filtering and contrast negation.

Familiarity is familiarity is familiarity: Event-related brain potentials reveal qualitatively similar representations of personally familiar and famous faces (2021)
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Wiese, H., Hobden, G., Siilbek, E., Martignac, V., Flack, T. R., Ritchie, K. L., Young, A. W., & Burton, A. M. (2022). Familiarity is familiarity is familiarity: Event-related brain potentials reveal qualitatively similar representations of personally familiar and famous faces. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 48(8), 1144-1164. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001063

Humans excel in familiar face recognition, but often find it hard to make identity judgements of unfamiliar faces. Understanding of the factors underlying the substantial benefits of familiarity is at present limited, but the effect is sometimes qual... Read More about Familiarity is familiarity is familiarity: Event-related brain potentials reveal qualitatively similar representations of personally familiar and famous faces.

Detecting a viewer's familiarity with a face: Evidence from event-related brain potentials and classifier analyses (2021)
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Wiese, H., Anderson, D., Beierholm, U., Tuettenberg, S. C., Young, A. W., & Burton, A. M. (2022). Detecting a viewer's familiarity with a face: Evidence from event-related brain potentials and classifier analyses. Psychophysiology, 59(1), Article e13950. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13950

Human observers recognise the faces of people they know efficiently and without apparent effort. Consequently, recognising a familiar face is often assumed to be an automatic process beyond voluntary control. However, there are circumstances in which... Read More about Detecting a viewer's familiarity with a face: Evidence from event-related brain potentials and classifier analyses.

Recognising other-race faces is more effortful: The effect of individuation instructions on encoding-related ERP Dm effects (2020)
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Tüttenberg, S. C., & Wiese, H. (2021). Recognising other-race faces is more effortful: The effect of individuation instructions on encoding-related ERP Dm effects. Biological Psychology, 158, Article 107992. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2020.107992

Humans are better at recognising faces from their own vs. another ethnic background. Socio-cognitive theories of this own-race bias (ORB) propose that reduced recognition of other-race faces results from less motivation to attend to individuating inf... Read More about Recognising other-race faces is more effortful: The effect of individuation instructions on encoding-related ERP Dm effects.

Neural Correlates of Own- and Other-Face Perception in Body Dysmorphic Disorder (2020)
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Ritter, V., Kaufmann, J. M., Krahmer, F., Wiese, H., Stangier, U., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2020). Neural Correlates of Own- and Other-Face Perception in Body Dysmorphic Disorder. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, Article 302. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00302

Background: Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is characterized by an excessive preoccupation with one or more perceived flaws in one’s own appearance. Previous studies provided evidence for deficits in configural and holistic processing in BDD. Prelimin... Read More about Neural Correlates of Own- and Other-Face Perception in Body Dysmorphic Disorder.

Learning own- and other-race facial identities: Testing implicit recognition with event-related brain potentials (2019)
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Tüttenberg, S. C., & Wiese, H. (2019). Learning own- and other-race facial identities: Testing implicit recognition with event-related brain potentials. Neuropsychologia, 134, Article 107218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107218

Exposure to varying images of the same person can encourage the formation of a representation that is sufficiently robust to allow recognition of previously unseen images of this person. While behavioural work suggests that face identity learning is... Read More about Learning own- and other-race facial identities: Testing implicit recognition with event-related brain potentials.

Learning own- and other-race facial identities from natural variability (2019)
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Tüttenberg, S. C., & Wiese, H. (2019). Learning own- and other-race facial identities from natural variability. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(12), 2788-2800. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021819859840

Exposure to multiple varying face images of the same person encourages the formation of identity representations which are sufficiently robust to allow subsequent recognition from new, never-before seen images. While recent studies suggest that ident... Read More about Learning own- and other-race facial identities from natural variability.

Intentionally remembering or forgetting own- and other-race faces: Evidence from directed forgetting (2019)
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Tüttenberg, S., & Wiese, H. (2020). Intentionally remembering or forgetting own- and other-race faces: Evidence from directed forgetting. British Journal of Psychology, 111(3), 570-597. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12413

People are better at remembering faces of their own relative to another ethnic group. This so‐called own‐race bias (ORB) has been explained in terms of differential perceptual expertise for own‐ and other‐race faces or, alternatively, as resulting fr... Read More about Intentionally remembering or forgetting own- and other-race faces: Evidence from directed forgetting.

Later but not early stages of familiar face recognition depend strongly on attentional resources: Evidence from event-related brain potentials (2019)
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Wiese, H., Ingram, B. T., Elley, M. L., Tüttenberg, S. C., Burton, A. M., & Young, A. W. (2019). Later but not early stages of familiar face recognition depend strongly on attentional resources: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Cortex, 120, 147-158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2019.06.004

In everyday life we usually recognise personally familiar faces efficiently and without apparent effort. This study examined to which extent the neural processes involved in recognising personally familiar faces depend on attentional resources by ana... Read More about Later but not early stages of familiar face recognition depend strongly on attentional resources: Evidence from event-related brain potentials.