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dc.contributor.authorFrowd, Charlie Den_UK
dc.contributor.authorSkelton, Faye Colletteen_UK
dc.contributor.authorAtherton, Chris Jen_UK
dc.contributor.authorPitchford, Melanieen_UK
dc.contributor.authorHepton, Gemmaen_UK
dc.contributor.authorHolden, Lauraen_UK
dc.contributor.authorMcIntyre, Alex Hen_UK
dc.contributor.authorHancock, Peter J Ben_UK
dc.date.accessioned2013-11-01T00:22:48Z-
dc.date.available2013-11-01T00:22:48Z-
dc.date.issued2012en_UK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/3584-
dc.description.abstractRecognition memory for unfamiliar faces is facilitated when contextual cues (e.g. head pose, background environment, hair and clothing) are consistent between study and test. By contrast, inconsistencies in external features, especially hair, promote errors in unfamiliar face-matching tasks. For the construction of facial composites, as carried out by witnesses and victims of crime, the role of external features (hair, ears and neck) is less clear, although research does suggest their involvement. Here, over three experiments, we investigate the impact of external features for recovering facial memories using a modern, recognition-based composite system, EvoFIT. Participant-constructors inspected an unfamiliar target face and, one day later, repeatedly selected items from arrays of whole faces, with ‘breeding’, to ‘evolve’ a composite with EvoFIT; further participants (evaluators) named the resulting composites. In Experiment 1, the important internal-features (eyes, brows, nose and mouth) were constructed more identifiably when the visual presence of external features was decreased by Gaussian blur during construction: higher blur yielded more identifiable internal-features. In Experiment 2, increasing the visible extent of external features (to match the target’s) in the presented face-arrays also improved internal-features quality, although less so than when external features were masked throughout construction. Experiment 3 demonstrated that masking external-features promoted substantially more identifiable images than using the previous method of blurring external-features. Overall, the research indicates that external features are a distractive rather than a beneficial cue for face construction; the results also provide a much better method to construct composites, one that should dramatically increase identification of offenders.en_UK
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherAmerican Psychological Association (APA)en_UK
dc.relationFrowd CD, Skelton FC, Atherton CJ, Pitchford M, Hepton G, Holden L, McIntyre AH & Hancock PJB (2012) Recovering faces from memory: the distracting influence of external facial features. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 18 (2), pp. 224-238. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0027393en_UK
dc.rightsPublished in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied by American Psychological Association. © 2012 American Psychological Association. This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record.en_UK
dc.subjectEvoFITen_UK
dc.subjectFacial compositesen_UK
dc.subjecthairen_UK
dc.subjectunfamiliar facesen_UK
dc.subjectFace perceptionen_UK
dc.subjectFace Psysiologyen_UK
dc.titleRecovering faces from memory: the distracting influence of external facial featuresen_UK
dc.typeJournal Articleen_UK
dc.identifier.doi10.1037/a0027393en_UK
dc.citation.jtitleJournal of Experimental Psychology: Applieden_UK
dc.citation.issn1939-2192en_UK
dc.citation.issn1076-898Xen_UK
dc.citation.volume18en_UK
dc.citation.issue2en_UK
dc.citation.spage224en_UK
dc.citation.epage238en_UK
dc.citation.publicationstatusPublisheden_UK
dc.citation.peerreviewedRefereeden_UK
dc.type.statusAM - Accepted Manuscripten_UK
dc.author.emailpjbh1@stir.ac.uken_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Central Lancashireen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Central Lancashireen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Central Lancashireen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationLancaster Universityen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Central Lancashireen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Central Lancashireen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationPsychologyen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationPsychologyen_UK
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000305044500009en_UK
dc.identifier.scopusid2-s2.0-84867890297en_UK
dc.identifier.wtid809178en_UK
dc.contributor.orcid0000-0001-6025-7068en_UK
dcterms.dateAccepted2012-12-31en_UK
dc.date.filedepositdate2012-01-23en_UK
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_UK
rioxxterms.versionAMen_UK
local.rioxx.authorFrowd, Charlie D|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorSkelton, Faye Collette|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorAtherton, Chris J|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorPitchford, Melanie|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorHepton, Gemma|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorHolden, Laura|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorMcIntyre, Alex H|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorHancock, Peter J B|0000-0001-6025-7068en_UK
local.rioxx.projectInternal Project|University of Stirling|https://isni.org/isni/0000000122484331en_UK
local.rioxx.freetoreaddate2012-12-31en_UK
local.rioxx.licencehttp://www.rioxx.net/licenses/under-embargo-all-rights-reserved||2012-12-31en_UK
local.rioxx.licencehttp://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved|2012-12-31|en_UK
local.rioxx.filenameFrowd Recovering faces from memory_JEPA2012.pdfen_UK
local.rioxx.filecount1en_UK
local.rioxx.source1076-898Xen_UK
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