Behavioural separation of face memory and face perception (opens in new tab)

A long-standing debate in neuropsychology concerns whether perception and memory function as independent systems or interact to support cognition. To investigate this, we develop the Face Memory and Perception task, a paradigm designed to systematically disentangle whether and how these processes interact under different conditions. Across five independent datasets with over 900 participants in total, we observe consistent evidence that face perception and working memory operate independently...