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Professor Holger Wiese's Outputs (67)

A robust neural index of high face familiarity (2018)
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Wiese, H., Tüttenberg, S. C., Ingram, B. T., Chan, C. Y., Gurbuz, Z., Burton, A. M., & Young, A. W. (2019). A robust neural index of high face familiarity. Psychological Science, 30(2), 261-272. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797618813572

Humans are remarkably accurate at recognizing familiar faces, whereas their ability to recognize, or even match, unfamiliar faces is much poorer. However, previous research has failed to identify neural correlates of this striking behavioral differen... Read More about A robust neural index of high face familiarity.

Properties of Familiar Face Representations: Only Contrast Positive Faces Contain All Information Necessary for Efficient Recognition (2018)
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Wiese, H., Chan, C., & Tüttenberg, S. (2019). Properties of Familiar Face Representations: Only Contrast Positive Faces Contain All Information Necessary for Efficient Recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45(9), 1583-1598. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000665

It is difficult to recognize the identity of a face presented in negative contrast. This difficulty, however, is substantially reduced when only the eye region is contrast positive in an otherwise negative face image, and recognition of these so-call... Read More about Properties of Familiar Face Representations: Only Contrast Positive Faces Contain All Information Necessary for Efficient Recognition.

Enhancement of face-sensitive ERPs in older adults induced by face recognition training (2018)
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Limbach, K., Kaufmann, J. M., Wiese, H., Witte, O. W., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2018). Enhancement of face-sensitive ERPs in older adults induced by face recognition training. Neuropsychologia, 119, 197-213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.08.010

A common cognitive problem reported by older people is compromised face recognition, which is often paralleled by age-related changes in face-sensitive and memory-related components in event-related brain potentials (ERPs). We developed a new trainin... Read More about Enhancement of face-sensitive ERPs in older adults induced by face recognition training.

Same-gender distractors are not so easy to reject: ERP evidence of gender categorization (2018)
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Rakic, T., Steffens, M. C., & Wiese, H. (2018). Same-gender distractors are not so easy to reject: ERP evidence of gender categorization. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 18(5), 825-836. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-018-0607-3

Social categorization appears to be an automatic process that occurs during person perception. Understanding social categorization better is important because mere categorization can lead to stereotype activation and, in turn, to discrimination. In t... Read More about Same-gender distractors are not so easy to reject: ERP evidence of gender categorization.

Inequality between biases in face memory: Event-related potentials reveal dissociable neural correlates of own-race and own-gender biases (2018)
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Wiese, H., & Schweinberger, S. (2018). Inequality between biases in face memory: Event-related potentials reveal dissociable neural correlates of own-race and own-gender biases. Cortex, 101, 119-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.01.016

Humans are more accurate at remembering faces from their own relative to a different ethnic group (own-race bias). Moreover, better memory for faces from an observer’s own relative to the other gender (own-gender bias) has also been reported, particu... Read More about Inequality between biases in face memory: Event-related potentials reveal dissociable neural correlates of own-race and own-gender biases.

Age-related differences in face recognition: Neural correlates of repetition and semantic priming in young and older adults (2017)
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Wiese, H., Komes, J., Tuettenberg, S., Leidinger, J., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2017). Age-related differences in face recognition: Neural correlates of repetition and semantic priming in young and older adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43(8), 1254-1273. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000380

Difficulties in person recognition are among the common complaints associated with cognitive ageing. The present series of experiments therefore investigated face and person recognition in young and older adults. We examined how within-domain and cro... Read More about Age-related differences in face recognition: Neural correlates of repetition and semantic priming in young and older adults.

When appearance does not match accent: Neural correlates of ethnicity-related expectancy violations (2016)
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Hansen, K., Steffens, M. C., Rakić, T., & Wiese, H. (2017). When appearance does not match accent: Neural correlates of ethnicity-related expectancy violations. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(3), 507-515. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw148

Most research on ethnicity in neuroscience and social psychology has focused on visual cues. However, accents are central social markers of ethnicity and strongly influence evaluations of others. Here, we examine how varying auditory (vocal accent) a... Read More about When appearance does not match accent: Neural correlates of ethnicity-related expectancy violations.

Event-related potentials reveal the development of stable face representations from natural variability (2016)
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Andrews, S., Burton, M. A., Schweinberger, S. R., & Wiese, H. (2017). Event-related potentials reveal the development of stable face representations from natural variability. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(8), 1620-1632. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2016.1195851

Natural variability between instances of unfamiliar faces can make it difficult to reconcile two images as the same person. Yet for familiar faces, effortless recognition occurs even with considerable variability between images. To explore how stable... Read More about Event-related potentials reveal the development of stable face representations from natural variability.

Neural correlates of cognitive aging during the perception of facial age: The role of relatively distant and local texture information (2015)
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Komes, J., Schweinberger, S., & Wiese, H. (2015). Neural correlates of cognitive aging during the perception of facial age: The role of relatively distant and local texture information. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Article 1420. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01420

Previous event-related potential (ERP) research revealed that older relative to younger adults show reduced inversion effects in the N170 (with more negative amplitudes for inverted than upright faces), suggestive of impairments in face perception. H... Read More about Neural correlates of cognitive aging during the perception of facial age: The role of relatively distant and local texture information.

Aging affects sex categorization of male and female faces in opposite ways (2015)
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Kloth, N., Damm, M., Schweinberger, S., & Wiese, H. (2015). Aging affects sex categorization of male and female faces in opposite ways. Acta Psychologica, 158, 78-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2015.04.005

Faces are rich in social information; they easily give away a person's sex, approximate age, feelings, or focus of attention. Past research has mostly focused on investigating the distinct facial signals and perceptual mechanisms that allow us to cat... Read More about Aging affects sex categorization of male and female faces in opposite ways.

Fourier power spectrum characteristics of face photographs: attractiveness perception depends on low-level image properties (2015)
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Menzel, C., Hayn-Leichsenring, G., Langner, O., Wiese, H., & Redies, C. (2015). Fourier power spectrum characteristics of face photographs: attractiveness perception depends on low-level image properties. PLoS ONE, 10(4), Article e0122801. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122801

We investigated whether low-level processed image properties that are shared by natural scenes and artworks – but not veridical face photographs – affect the perception of facial attractiveness and age. Specifically, we considered the slope of the ra... Read More about Fourier power spectrum characteristics of face photographs: attractiveness perception depends on low-level image properties.

Getting connected: Both associative and semantic links structure semantic memory for newly learned persons (2015)
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Wiese, H., & Schweinberger, S. (2015). Getting connected: Both associative and semantic links structure semantic memory for newly learned persons. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68(11), 2131-2148. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2015.1008526

The present study examined whether semantic memory for newly learned people is structured by visual co-occurrence, shared semantics, or both. Participants were trained with pairs of simultaneously presented (i.e., co-occurring) preexperimentally unfa... Read More about Getting connected: Both associative and semantic links structure semantic memory for newly learned persons.

The own-age bias in face memory is unrelated to differences in attention — Evidence from event-related brain potentials (2014)
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Neumann, M., End, A., Luttmann, S., Schweinberger, S., & Wiese, H. (2015). The own-age bias in face memory is unrelated to differences in attention — Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 15(1), 180-194. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-014-0306-7

Participants are more accurate at remembering faces from their own relative to a different age group (the own-age bias, or OAB). A recent socio-cognitive account has suggested that differential allocation of attention to old versus young faces underl... Read More about The own-age bias in face memory is unrelated to differences in attention — Evidence from event-related brain potentials.

Preserved fine-tuning of face perception and memory: evidence from the own-race bias in high- and low-performing older adults (2014)
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Komes, J., Schweinberger, S., & Wiese, H. (2014). Preserved fine-tuning of face perception and memory: evidence from the own-race bias in high- and low-performing older adults. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 6, Article 60. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2014.00060

Previous research suggests specific deficits in face perception and memory in older adults, which could reflect a dedifferentiation in the context of a general broadening of cognitive architecture with advanced age. Such dedifferentiation could manif... Read More about Preserved fine-tuning of face perception and memory: evidence from the own-race bias in high- and low-performing older adults.

Fluency affects source memory for familiar names in younger and older adults: Evidence from event-related brain potentials (2014)
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Komes, J., Schweinberger, S., & Wiese, H. (2014). Fluency affects source memory for familiar names in younger and older adults: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. NeuroImage, 92, 90-105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.02.009

A current debate in memory research is whether and how the access to source information depends not only on recollection, but on fluency-based processes as well. In three experiments, we used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to examine influence... Read More about Fluency affects source memory for familiar names in younger and older adults: Evidence from event-related brain potentials.

Effects of attractiveness on face memory separated from distinctiveness: Evidence from event-related brain potentials (2014)
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Wiese, H., Altmann, C., & Schweinberger, S. (2014). Effects of attractiveness on face memory separated from distinctiveness: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Neuropsychologia, 56, 26-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.12.023

The present study examined effects of attractiveness on behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) correlates of face memory. Extending previous reports, we controlled for potential moderating effects of distinctiveness, a variable known to affect... Read More about Effects of attractiveness on face memory separated from distinctiveness: Evidence from event-related brain potentials.

Do neural correlates of face expertise vary with task demands? Event-related potential correlates of own- and other-race face inversion (2013)
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Wiese, H. (2013). Do neural correlates of face expertise vary with task demands? Event-related potential correlates of own- and other-race face inversion. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, Article 898. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00898

We are typically more accurate at remembering own- than other-race faces. This “own-race bias” has been suggested to result from enhanced expertise with and more efficient perceptual processing of own-race than other-race faces. In line with this ide... Read More about Do neural correlates of face expertise vary with task demands? Event-related potential correlates of own- and other-race face inversion.

Ageing faces in ageing minds: A review on the own-age bias in face recognition (2013)
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Wiese, H., Komes, J., & Schweinberger, S. (2013). Ageing faces in ageing minds: A review on the own-age bias in face recognition. Visual Cognition, 21(9-10), 1337-1363. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2013.823139

Similar to the well-established own-race bias, participants are more accurate at remembering own- relative to other-age faces. An own-age bias (OAB) in face memory was demonstrated in participants older than approximately 5 years. Crucially, the OAB... Read More about Ageing faces in ageing minds: A review on the own-age bias in face recognition.