The Lecturer in the Corridor

After a semester in the back rows, is a face familiar at arm's length?

A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions records EEG from 46 first-year students at the end of a twelve-week lecture course and compares the N250 familiarity response to photographs of their lecturer shown at the size seen from the theatre's median seat and at the size seen across a corridor. Students who sat in the back rows showed the response at theatre size and almost none at corridor size, front-row students showed it at both, and every group showed it at both sizes for the tutor they had met across a table.

@misc{slop_tlx05e,
  author       = {Vigdis Emenike and Iben Chikere and Signy Okpara},
  title        = {The Lecturer in the Corridor: After a semester in the back rows, is a face familiar at arm's length?},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.tlx05e},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-recognising-the-lecturer-tlx05e/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}