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  • Developmental Psychology
  • Neuroscience

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  • Face perception abilities develop throughout childhood.
  • A key debate in face perception is the shift from analytical to holistic processing during development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the developmental trajectory of holistic face processing in school-aged children and adults.
  • To determine the age at which holistic face representations emerge and how featural and configural information are integrated.

Main Methods:

  • A perceptual matching task using upright and inverted face and house stimuli.
  • Stimuli varied in featural and second-order configural information similarity.
  • Reaction time (RT) was used to operationalize analytical (parallel processing) and holistic (serial processing) strategies.

Main Results:

  • Adults exhibited strong holistic processing, particularly for second-order configural information in upright faces.
  • Holistic processing was less evident for inverted faces and houses.
  • Younger children (6-8 years) predominantly used analytical processing.
  • Older children (9-11 years) showed an intermediate pattern, with a trend towards holistic processing for second-order configural face information.

Conclusions:

  • Holistic face representation emerges around 10 years of age.
  • Development involves an initial reliance on second-order configural processing, followed by the integration of featural information in adulthood.
  • Understanding this developmental shift is key to understanding mature face perception.