Face Recognition and Learning Disability

What is it about?

The aim of this study was to analyze the unfamiliar face recognition ability of people with mild and moderate intellectual disabilities and assess factors that might facilitate the task while minimizing errors. For this purpose, two groups had to recognize in two lineups with six photographs each (one present-target and one absent-target). Each subject performed four trials, two with pictures of men and two with women. Analysis of the results suggests that people with intellectual disabilities compared with control group made fewer hits and more false alarms and discriminate faces worst (d’), but with few differences in the response bias (ß).

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Why is it important?

The relationship between unfamiliar face recognition performance and IQ was significant in some types of responses.