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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Human Perception
  • Neuroscience of Aging

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  • The own-age bias (OAB) demonstrates enhanced face recognition for own-age compared to other-age faces.
  • While robust in young adults, the OAB is less consistent in older adult populations.
  • Factors influencing OAB, such as task demands and experience, require further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the influence of different task conditions on the own-age bias (OAB) in face recognition.
  • To compare the OAB in young and older adults across a match-to-sample and an identity detection task.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1: Young and older adults performed a match-to-sample task using young and older adult faces.
  • Experiment 2: Participants completed an identity detection task with manipulated identity strength using morphed faces.
  • Facial age and identity strength were systematically varied to assess their impact on recognition accuracy and strategy.

Main Results:

  • In the match-to-sample task, only young adults exhibited a significant own-age bias.
  • In the identity detection task, accuracy improved with identity strength, and older adults employed different strategies.
  • No evidence of an own-age bias was found in the identity detection task for either age group.

Conclusions:

  • The own-age bias in face recognition is not universal and is significantly influenced by task demands.
  • The OAB may be absent in tasks requiring the identification of a specific individual, particularly when identity strength is manipulated.
  • These findings highlight the context-dependent nature of age-related face recognition biases.