a face memory test i do on 14 Feb 2010

Face Memory Test Results

Your Score

Recognition score ( if you saw it ) Your score: 87% Average score: 92% This is a measure of your ability to remember the photos you've seen, regardless of the part in which you saw them. From all 24 photos shown in Parts 1 & 2, you recognised: 21photo(s).

Temporal memory score ( when you saw it ) Your score: 71% Average score: 68% This is a measure of how often you recognised a photo and matched it to the correct part, instead of just remembering which ones you'd seen. From all the photos you recognised, you matched: 15photo(s) to the correct part.

Sleep scientists say that:

• recognition memory for faces is unaffected by sleep loss. A person who has not slept for as much as 35 hours can perform as well as someone who is not sleep deprived.
• the area of the brain that controls temporal memory can be affected by prolonged sleep loss and/or ageing. So a healthy 65 year old who sleeps normally would be able to perform this test similarly to a 20 year old who has gone without sleep for 36 hours.

Hover your mouse over the ticks and crosses to see how you performed:

These photos were in part 1:
These photos were in Part 2:
These photos were in neither section:
In the section above you made 1 "false positive(s)". That is, thinking you remembered seeing the photo when you hadn't seen it before. Average false positive score is 1-3.