PMID- 34240344
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20211207
LR  - 20211214
IS  - 1531-5320 (Electronic)
IS  - 1069-9384 (Linking)
VI  - 28
IP  - 6
DP  - 2021 Dec
TI  - And like that, they were gone: A failure to remember recently attended unique 
      faces.
PG  - 2027-2034
LID - 10.3758/s13423-021-01965-2 [doi]
AB  - Attribute amnesia (AA) is a phenomenon in which participants have difficulty 
      answering an unexpected question about an attended attribute of the most recent 
      target stimulus. A similar situation can occur in cases of real-life eyewitness 
      identification when the eyewitness did not explicitly try to remember the alleged 
      perpetrator's face despite having attended to it. We found that AA is 
      generalizable to novel faces, such that when participants were unexpectedly asked 
      to identify a face, performance was poor, even though they had just attended to 
      that face seconds ago (N = 40 each in an initial experiment and its replication). 
      This finding shows that unexpected face identification is inaccurate even when 
      the face had just been attended to and suffered minimal decay and interference, 
      implying that AA can explain some cases of failure of eyewitness identification 
      that cannot be attributed to a lack of attention or post-event interference.
CI  - (c) 2021. The Psychonomic Society, Inc.
FAU - Tam, Joyce
AU  - Tam J
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0020-3177
AD  - Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 
      16801, USA. joyce.m.y.tam@gmail.com.
FAU - Mugno, Michael K
AU  - Mugno MK
AD  - Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 
      16801, USA.
FAU - O'Donnell, Ryan E
AU  - O'Donnell RE
AD  - Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 
      16801, USA.
FAU - Wyble, Brad
AU  - Wyble B
AD  - Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 
      16801, USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210708
PL  - United States
TA  - Psychon Bull Rev
JT  - Psychonomic bulletin & review
JID - 9502924
SB  - IM
MH  - Amnesia
MH  - *Attention
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Mental Recall
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Attribute amnesia
OT  - Eyewitness identification
OT  - Face recognition
OT  - Working memory
EDAT- 2021/07/10 06:00
MHDA- 2021/12/15 06:00
CRDT- 2021/07/09 07:13
PHST- 2021/05/27 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/07/10 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/12/15 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2021/07/09 07:13 [entrez]
AID - 10.3758/s13423-021-01965-2 [pii]
AID - 10.3758/s13423-021-01965-2 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Psychon Bull Rev. 2021 Dec;28(6):2027-2034. doi: 10.3758/s13423-021-01965-2. Epub 
      2021 Jul 8.