Effects of processing strategy and transformation on recognition memory for photographs of faces

Abstract

Having judged 20 upright faces for intelligence (n = 18) or for spectacles (n = 14), subjects were given a recognition test in which half of the photographs were inverted. Accuracy was poorer for inverted photographs than for upright photographs, but the effect was only significant following intelligence judgments. It is suggested that inversion may disrupt a semantic code in memory. © 1991, The Psychonomic Society, Inc.. All rights reserved.