Abstract
The transfer-inappropriate processing shift is one explanation for the verbal overshadowing effect: a phenomenon that prevents accurate face recognition following a verbal description of that same face. Rather than examining a shift from configural to featural processing, this experiment investigated whether a shift from automatic to controlled processing could have similar deleterious effects on facial recognition. Automatic, and controlled, processing were induced using a computer-based Stroop task. Participants ( n = 288) processed the font colour, or word reading conditions of the Stroop task; afterwards, their facial recognition was tested. Even though the Stroop effect did occur, the differences in facial recognition between participants who responded to the automatic condition and participants who responded to the controlled condition of the Stroop task did not differ significantly. The results suggest that the processing shift from configural to featural processing, which is induced by the Navon letters, would better explain the verbal overshadowing effect than the processing modes underlying the Stroop task.
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