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Zusammenfassung:
Humans have a natural expertise in recognizing faces. However, the
nature of the interaction between this critical visual biological skill
and memory is yet unclear. Here, we had the unique opportunity to test
two individuals who have had exceptional success in the World Memory
Championships, including several world records in face-name association
memory. We designed a range of face processing tasks to determine
whether superior/expert face memory skills are associated with
distinctive perceptual strategies for processing faces. Superior
memorizers excelled at tasks involving associative face-name learning.
Nevertheless, they were as impaired as controls in tasks probing the
efficiency of the face system: face inversion and the other-race effect.
Super memorizers did not show increased hippocampal volumes, and
exhibited optimal generic eye movement strategies when they performed
complex multi-item face-name associations. Our data show that the visual
computations of the face system are not malleable and are robust to
acquired expertise involving extensive training of associative memory.
