Person Recognition Is Easier from Faces than from Voices

This article reviews a number of recent studies that systematically compared the access to semantic and episodic information from faces and voices. Results have showed that semantic and episodic information is easier to retrieve from faces than from voices. This advantage of faces over voices is a r...

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Main Author:	Catherine Barsics
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Ubiquity Press 2014-05-01
Series:	Psychologica Belgica
Subjects:	person recognition face voice episodic memory semantic memory
Online Access:	http://www.psychologicabelgica.com/articles/204

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spelling	doaj-cbbea1c6da2b4933b43647b63b9be3322020-11-24T23:50:17ZengUbiquity PressPsychologica Belgica0033-28792054-670X2014-05-0154324425410.5334/pb.ap205Person Recognition Is Easier from Faces than from VoicesCatherine Barsics0Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva-CISA, GenevaThis article reviews a number of recent studies that systematically compared the access to semantic and episodic information from faces and voices. Results have showed that semantic and episodic information is easier to retrieve from faces than from voices. This advantage of faces over voices is a robust phenomenon, which emerges whatever the kind of target persons, might they be famous, personally familiar to the participants, or newly learned. Theoretical accounts of this face advantage over voice are finally discussed.http://www.psychologicabelgica.com/articles/204person recognitionfacevoiceepisodic memorysemantic memory
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title	Person Recognition Is Easier from Faces than from Voices
title_short	Person Recognition Is Easier from Faces than from Voices
title_full	Person Recognition Is Easier from Faces than from Voices
title_fullStr	Person Recognition Is Easier from Faces than from Voices
title_full_unstemmed	Person Recognition Is Easier from Faces than from Voices
title_sort	person recognition is easier from faces than from voices
publisher	Ubiquity Press
series	Psychologica Belgica
issn	0033-2879 2054-670X
publishDate	2014-05-01
description	This article reviews a number of recent studies that systematically compared the access to semantic and episodic information from faces and voices. Results have showed that semantic and episodic information is easier to retrieve from faces than from voices. This advantage of faces over voices is a robust phenomenon, which emerges whatever the kind of target persons, might they be famous, personally familiar to the participants, or newly learned. Theoretical accounts of this face advantage over voice are finally discussed.
topic	person recognition face voice episodic memory semantic memory
url	http://www.psychologicabelgica.com/articles/204
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Person Recognition Is Easier from Faces than from Voices

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