Developmental changes in face recognition during childhood : evidence from upright and inverted faces
(2012) Cognitive Development — Vol. 27, n° 1, p. 17-27 (2012)
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- Adults are experts at recognizing faces but there is controversy about how this ability develops with age. We assessed 6- to 12-year-olds and adults using a digitized version of the Benton Face Recognition Test, a sensitive tool for assessing face perception abilities. Children’s response times for correct responses did not decrease between ages 6 and 12, for either upright or inverted faces, but were significantly longer than those of adults for both face types. Accuracy improved between ages 6 and 12, ignificantly more for upright than inverted faces. Inverted face recognition improved slowly until late childhood, whereas there was a large improvement in upright face recognition between ages 6 and 8, with a further enhancement after age 12. These results provide further evidence that during childhood face processing undergoes protracted development and becomes increasingly tuned to upright faces.
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de Heering, A., Rossion, B., & Maurer, D. (2012). Developmental changes in face recognition during childhood : evidence from upright and inverted faces. Cognitive Development, 27(1), 17-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2011.07.001 (Original work published 2012)