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Super-Memorizers Are Not Super-Recognizers
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Ramon M
; Miellet S
; Dzieciol AM
; Konrad BN
; Dresler M
; Caldara R
PLoS One
2016[]; 11
(3
): e0150972
PMID27008627
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Humans have a natural expertise in recognizing faces. However, the nature of the
interaction between this critical visual biological skill and memory is yet
unclear. Here, we had the unique opportunity to test two individuals who have had
exceptional success in the World Memory Championships, including several world
records in face-name association memory. We designed a range of face processing
tasks to determine whether superior/expert face memory skills are associated with
distinctive perceptual strategies for processing faces. Superior memorizers
excelled at tasks involving associative face-name learning. Nevertheless, they
were as impaired as controls in tasks probing the efficiency of the face system:
face inversion and the other-race effect. Super memorizers did not show increased
hippocampal volumes, and exhibited optimal generic eye movement strategies when
they performed complex multi-item face-name associations. Our data show that the
visual computations of the face system are not malleable and are robust to
acquired expertise involving extensive training of associative memory.