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The theoretical understanding of face memory recognition is guided by the distinction between a categorical view of recollection and a continuous view of recollection. The former represented by dual-process models, is based on the assumption that familiarity and recollection are independent memory processes, indexed by separate event-related potential (ERP) components, an early negative mid-frontal FN400 response to familiarity between 300 and 500 ms and a later positive parietal LPC (late positive component) response to recollection between 500 and 800 ms. According to the dual perspective, LPC is only related to high confidence item recognition. In contrast, the continuous approach of recognition based on signal detection theory, considers recollection as one that comes in degrees yielding varying degrees of confidence and accuracy. In this study, author evaluated, in a cognitively intact young adult population, the extent to which behavioral and ERP data support dual-process models in light of the proposal that recollection is a continuous memory process.
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Julie Zanesco initially licensed in international business administration in London, worked 10 years in the luxury industry. She, then oriented her career in psychology and post-graduated in neurosciences. Currently she's doing her PhD as well as a second post-graduation in clinical psychology at the University of Geneva.
