Bruyer R, Vanberten M
University of Louvain, Department of Psychology, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Percept Mot Skills. 1998 Aug;87(1):323-7. doi: 10.2466/pms.1998.87.1.323.
Properties of short-term memory for faces (Exp. 1) were investigated in 40 young and 30 elderly persons and compared with short-term memory for non-verbal shapes (Exp. 2) with 30 new persons in a young group and an elderly one. Young subjects displayed a U-shaped curve for both kinds of stimuli, and elderly subjects displayed a U-shaped curve, but the recency effect was abolished for faces (in one condition). This suggests a possible specific short-term store for faces.
在40名年轻人和30名老年人中研究了面部短期记忆的特性(实验1),并与30名年轻人和老年人组成的新组中对非语言形状的短期记忆(实验2)进行了比较。年轻受试者对两种刺激均呈现出U形曲线,而老年受试者也呈现出U形曲线,但在一种情况下,面部的近因效应消失了。这表明可能存在一个特定的面部短期存储机制。