Development of the Exposure Based Face Memory Test
This page documents the development of the Exposure Based Face Memory Test. The test itself can be taken here.
Summary
The Exposure Based Face Memory Test was developed to be an open source measure of face memory.
The EBFMT has statistical and conceptual problems and the Cambridge Face Memory Test is recommended over it.
Introduction
Memory for faces is independent of normal memory.
Construction
The format of the test was dictated by the availability of materials. The items used were obtained from the Psychological Image Collection at Stirling (PICS) in the set donated by Ian Craw from the University of Aberdeen. The images consist of frontal face photographs against a white wall, with 1-12 of each subject.
The test was arranged so that correct answers were roughly distributed between the two options but aside from that there was not much of a method. Some people show up once, some show up many times.
References
Brad Duchaine and Ken Nakayama (2006). "The Cambridge Face Memory Test: Results for neurologically intact individuals and an investigation of its validity using inverted face stimuli and prosopagnosic participants". Neuropsychologia 44.4: 576-585.
License
The photographs of the faces are from the Psychological Image Collection at Stirling (PICS) and are copyrighted, but "free for research use".
The other parts of the EBFMT, and all text on this page is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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