Intra- and inter-modal repetition priming of familiar faces and voices.
Two experiments explored repetition priming for familiar voices and faces. Expt 1 revealed that, like faces, prior exposure to a voice in a gender judgment task speeds its subsequent classification as familiar or unfamiliar, some minutes later. Faces and voices do not prime one another, however; a result consistent with the notion that evidence is initially accumulated separately for voices and faces. In Expt 2, a prediction derived from the IAC model of Burton, Bruce & Johnston (1990) was explored. The results confirmed that inter-modal repetition priming occurs when the interval between exposures to different personal identification stimuli are separated by a short SOA. This result is consistent with similar ones reported by Calder (1993) and Young, Flude, Hellawell & Ellis (1994) for face-name combinations.
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School of Psychology, University of Wales Cardiff, UK.
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Mosdell
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D001307:Auditory Perception; D005145:Face; D006801:Humans; D011897:Random Allocation; D011930:Reaction Time; D014796:Visual Perception; D014831:Voice