Aren’t text names basically similar in practice? At least for me, I find they trigger basically the same thing because I do actually associate names with people.
Maybe this wouldn’t be true if I didn’t know people very well (but in that case, icons also wouldn’t matter).
(I overall dislike icons, but I don’t have a principled reason for this.)
I miswrote a bit when I said “relationships”. Yes, names and faces both trigger social recognition, but I meant to make the point that they operate in significantly different ways in the brain, and facial recognition is tuned to processing a lot of emotional and social cues that we aren’t tuned to from text. I have tons of social associations with people’s physical forms that are beyond simply their character.
Aren’t text names basically similar in practice? At least for me, I find they trigger basically the same thing because I do actually associate names with people.
Maybe this wouldn’t be true if I didn’t know people very well (but in that case, icons also wouldn’t matter).
(I overall dislike icons, but I don’t have a principled reason for this.)
I miswrote a bit when I said “relationships”. Yes, names and faces both trigger social recognition, but I meant to make the point that they operate in significantly different ways in the brain, and facial recognition is tuned to processing a lot of emotional and social cues that we aren’t tuned to from text. I have tons of social associations with people’s physical forms that are beyond simply their character.
(A language model helped me write this comment.)