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Developmental changes in face processing skills.

Catherine J Mondloch1, Sybil Geldart, Daphne Maurer

  • 1Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, L8S 4K1 Ont., Canada. mondloch@mcmaster.ca

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
|August 29, 2003
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Children

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Facial feature spacing (second-order relations) processing develops later than individual feature or contour processing.
  • Understanding this developmental lag is crucial for explaining face-processing skill acquisition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of developing sensitivity to second-order relations on various face-processing skills in children.
  • To assess age-related differences in face perception, particularly concerning identity recognition under varying orientations.

Main Methods:

  • Developed five computerized tasks assessing face identity, expression, gaze, and speech matching.
  • Evaluated performance in adults and children (6, 8, 10 years) using upright and inverted face stimuli.

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Main Results:

  • Adults showed an "inversion effect" primarily in identity matching with head orientation changes.
  • Younger children (6-year-olds) made more errors across all tasks compared to adults.
  • Older children (8 and 10-year-olds) showed increasing proficiency, but still struggled with identity matching under orientation changes.

Conclusions:

  • The delayed development of second-order relation processing significantly impairs children's ability to recognize facial identity when a face's orientation changes.
  • This highlights a critical developmental window for robust facial identity recognition, especially under challenging viewing conditions.