@article{ref1,
title="Recognising faces seen alone or with others: when two heads are worse than one",
journal="Applied cognitive psychology",
year="2006",
author="Megreya, Ahmed M. and Burton, A. Mike",
volume="20",
number="7",
pages="957-972",
abstract="There is a large body of work investigating face identification, but most of this addresses recognition of a single person. Here, we examine how recognition is affected by the presence of a second face. In Experiments 1 and 2, we demonstrate that memory for an unfamiliar face is severely reduced if it is seen alongside a second person. Sequential presentation of two target faces further reduces accuracy. In Experiments 3 and 4, we demonstrate the same disadvantage for two-face targets in a matching task, where subjects have no time limits or memory requirement. In matching, the damaging effect of a second face is greatest when the targets are placed close together. Furthermore, there is a general advantage for faces presented to the left. We suggest that it may not be possible to extrapolate results from single-face studies to experiments (or realistic situations) involving more than one person. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0888-4080",
doi="10.1002/acp.1243",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/acp.1243"
}