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Becoming a face expert.

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  • 1Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139.

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences
|January 29, 1992
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Children

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive psychology
  • Developmental psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Young children are less efficient than adults at forming representations of new faces.
  • Understanding age-related differences in face perception is crucial for cognitive development research.
  • Expertise in recognizing individual faces within a class sharing a basic configuration leads to specific perceptual effects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the sources of age-related differences in face encoding efficiency.
  • To determine if improved face recognition in adults stems from general cognitive skills or face-specific knowledge.
  • To examine the role of configural processing and its relation to face expertise and inversion effects.

Main Methods:

  • Review of phenomena related to face inversion and its interference with configural encoding.

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  • Analysis of developmental data on face encoding vulnerability to inversion.
  • Comparison of face perception skills in children and adults.

    • Main Results:

    • Adult face recognition expertise is linked to specific perceptual advantages, such as a large inversion effect and caricature advantage.
    • These advantages may reflect a greater reliance on configuration-distinguishing features with increasing expertise.
    • Developmental data suggest at least two distinct sources contribute to the vulnerability of face encoding to inversion.

    Conclusions:

    • The improvement in face encoding from childhood to adulthood is primarily due to the acquisition of face-specific knowledge, not general cognitive enhancements.
    • Expertise in face perception involves configural processing, which is particularly sensitive to face inversion.
    • There are multiple mechanisms underlying face encoding, with only some contributing to adult-level expertise.