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Recognizing the same face in different contexts: Testing within-person face recognition in typical development and in

Louise Neil¹, Giulia Cappagli², Themelis Karaminis¹

¹Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE), UCL Institute of Education, University College London, London WC1H 0NU, UK.

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

|December 1, 2015

Summary

Children struggle with recognizing the same face in different photos, especially younger children. Autistic children performed similarly to neurotypical children in this face recognition task.

Keywords:

Autism Children Development Face perception Face recognition Identity

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Area of Science:

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Developmental psychology
Neurodevelopmental disorders

Background:

Unfamiliar face recognition has a prolonged developmental course.
Face recognition abilities can be atypical in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Limited research exists on recognizing the same face across varied natural images.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate within-person face recognition in children with and without autism.
To examine how children process facial identity across multiple, naturally varying images.
To compare face recognition performance between typically developing children and children with ASD.

Main Methods:

Experiment 1: Typically developing children (ages 6-14) and adults sorted grayscale photos of individuals presented at different ages, angles, and lighting.
Experiment 2: Cognitively able children with autism (n=32) performed the same task.
Participants sorted images by perceived identity, with errors in identity matching and number of perceived identities recorded.

Main Results:

Children frequently mistook images of the same person for different individuals, creating multiple perceived identities.
Younger children perceived more identities and made more misidentification errors than adults.
Children with autism showed similar performance to age-matched neurotypical peers in terms of perceived identities and misidentification errors.

Conclusions:

Immature face recognition in both typical and autistic children may stem from difficulties in extracting invariant perceptual features across different images.
Challenges in building stable facial identity representations contribute to within-person recognition difficulties.
Further research is needed to understand the specific mechanisms underlying these developmental face recognition challenges.