Popova, Tsvetomila and Wiese, Holger (2022) 'The time it takes to truly know someone: Neurophysiological correlates of face and identity learning during the first two years.', Biological psychology., 170 . p. 108312.
Abstract
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, SFE) develop over time. Sixty undergraduate students from three year groups were tested with images of a university friend (with two, 14, and 26 months of familiarity for Year 1, Year 2, and Year 3 students), a highly familiar friend from home, and an unfamiliar identity. While clear ERP familiarity effects for home friends were observed in all groups, university friends yielded a clear N250 effect but only a small SFE in Year 1. Importantly, both effects significantly increased for university friends from Year 1 to Year 2, but not afterwards. Our results demonstrate that neural representations of visual familiarity and identity-specific knowledge build up over time and are fully developed by 14 months of familiarity.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Full text: | Publisher-imposed embargo until 12 March 2023. (AM) Accepted Manuscript Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives 4.0. File format - PDF (2882Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108312 |
| Publisher statement: | © 2022. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Date accepted: | 09 March 2022 |
| Date deposited: | 14 March 2022 |
| Date of first online publication: | 12 March 2022 |
| Date first made open access: | 12 March 2023 |
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