The impact of COVID-19 on memory: Recognition for masked and unmasked faces.
| Autor: | Guerra N; School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal., Pinto R; School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal., Mendes PS; Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisbon, Portugal., Rodrigues PFS; Portucalense Institute for Human Development (INPP), Portucalense University, Porto, Portugal., Albuquerque PB; School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in psychology [Front Psychol] 2022 Oct 06; Vol. 13, pp. 960941. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Oct 06 (Print Publication: 2022). |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.960941 |
| Abstrakt: | Considering the current state of the worldwide pandemic, it is still common to encounter people wearing face protection masks. Although a safety measure against COVID-19, face masks might be compromising our capacity for face recognition. We conducted an online study where 140 participants observed masked and unmasked faces in a within-subjects design and then performed a recognition memory task. The best performance was found when there were no masks either at study and test phase, i.e., at the congruent unmasked condition. The worst performance was found for faces encoded with a mask but tested without it (i.e., masked-unmasked incongruent condition), which can be explained by the disruption in holistic face processing and the violation of the encoding specificity principle. Interestingly, considering the unmasked-masked incongruent condition, performance was probably affected by the violation of the encoding specificity principle but protected by holistic processing that occurred during encoding. Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. (Copyright © 2022 Guerra, Pinto, Mendes, Rodrigues and Albuquerque.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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