Developmental changes in face processing skills

Mondloch, Catherine J.; Geldart, Sybil; Maurer, Daphne; Grand, Richard Le

doi:10.1016/s0022-0965(03)00102-4

Cited by 242 publications

(242 citation statements)

References 41 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

222

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…However, when they needed to select which of two emotional faces expressed the same emotion as a third face, a good accuracy level was not reached until 10 years of age. In a similar study in which children needed to match an emotional photograph to one of four possibilities (neutral, surprise, happiness, or disgust), Mondloch, Geldart, Maurer, and Le Grand (2003) reported an increase in accuracy between 6 and 8 years of age, when performance reached the adult level. In a study by Kolb, Wilson, and Taylor (1992), children and adults were shown a single emotional photograph or a cartoon depicting an emotional situation and then needed to select from a panel of six different emotional photographs (happiness, sadness, fear, anger, disgust, and surprise) the face that expressed the same or correct emotion.Recognition of facial emotions improved between 6 and 8 years and between 8 and 10 years of age, depending on the task, and improved again between age 14-15 years of age and adulthood.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 93%

The development of facial emotion recognition: The role of configural information

Durand

Gallay

Seigneuric

et al. 2007

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

293

243

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The development of children's ability to recognize facial emotions and the role of configural informationin this development were investigated. In the study, 100 5-, 7-, 9-, and 11-year-olds and 26 adultsneeded to recognize the emotion displayed by upright and upside-down faces. The same participantsneeded to recognize the emotion displayed by the top half of an upright or upside-down face that was orwas not aligned with a bottom half that displayed another emotion. The results showed that the ability torecognize facial emotion develops with age, with a developmental course that depends on the emotion tobe recognized. Moreover, children at all ages and adults exhibited both an inversion effect and a compositeeffect, suggesting that children rely on configural information to recognize facial emotions.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 93%

The development of facial emotion recognition: The role of configural information

Durand

Gallay

Seigneuric

et al. 2007

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

293

243

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The late maturation hypothesis posits that children do not remember faces as accurately as adults because face processing ability does not fully develop until at least adolescence (see Carey & Diamond, 1977;Mondloch, Le Grand, & Maurer, 2002). Evidence from the basic face processing literature suggests that children's sensitivity may be poorer because they tend to engage in more feature-based rather than configural-based processing (Mondloch, Geldart, Maurer, & Le Grand, 2003: Mondloch, et al, 2002Schwarzer, 2000). The recognition of faces using configural information may not reach adult levels until adolescence (Bruce et al, 2000;Carey, Diamond, & Woods, 1980;Mondloch, et al, 2003: Mondloch, et al, 2002.…”

Section: Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis Of Age-related Chmentioning

confidence: 99%

Receiver operating characteristic analysis of age-related changes in lineup performance

Humphries

Flowe

2015

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In the basic face memory literature, support has been found for the late maturation hypothesis, which holds that face recognition ability is not fully developed until at least adolescence. Support for the late maturation hypothesis in the criminal lineup identification literature, however, has been equivocal, because of the analytic approach that has been used to examine age-related changes in identification performance. Recently, Receiver Operator Characteristics (ROC) analysis was applied for the first time in the adult eyewitness memory literature to examine whether memory sensitivity differs across different types of lineup tests (Gronlund et al. 2012;Mickes, Flowe, & Wixted, 2012). ROC analysis allows for the separation of memory sensitivity from response bias in the analysis of recognition data. Here, we make the first ROC-based comparison of adults' and children's (5-6 years and 9-10 years) memory performance on lineups by reanalysing data from Humphries, Holliday, & Flowe 3 (2012). In line with the late maturation hypothesis, memory sensitivity was significantly greater for adults compared to young children. Memory sensitivity for older children was similar to adults. The results indicate that the late maturation hypothesis can be generalized to account for age-related performance differences on an eyewitness memory task. The implications for developmental eyewitness memory research are discussed.

show abstract

“…Second-order information is also present in the form of surface-based cues, such as shading and pigmentation that is unique to each face [54]. There is a general agreement that second-order configural cues provide the information needed to discriminate between individuals [55]. Therefore, while the first-order configuration enables the identification of faces at a basic categorical level, e.g.…”

Section: Part 1 (A) Configural Information In Facesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These two studies used rather crude manipulations of second-order configural cues, whereas the more traditional approach in the human literature is to contrast performance on trials in which specific facial features are replaced, to trials in which the spacing of features has been altered. Children over 8 years of age are able to detect changes at the feature level, but even 10 year old children have difficulty detecting changes in the spacing of features [55,82].…”

Section: Part 2 (A) Individuating Facesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With no visual experience with faces, these monkeys were able to detect changes in both the identity of features and the spacing of features, a finding that is in contrast to the 10 or more years of experience required by humans to detect similar manipulations [55,82]. Dahl et al [34] also examined whether monkeys could detect changes in the spacing of facial features, e.g.…”

Section: Part 2 (A) Individuating Facesmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

The evolution of face processing in primates

Parr

2011

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

150

146

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The ability to recognize faces is an important socio-cognitive skill that is associated with a number of cognitive specializations in humans. While numerous studies have examined the presence of these specializations in non-human primates, species where face recognition would confer distinct advantages in social situations, results have been mixed. The majority of studies in chimpanzees support homologous face-processing mechanisms with humans, but results from monkey studies appear largely dependent on the type of testing methods used. Studies that employ passive viewing paradigms, like the visual paired comparison task, report evidence of similarities between monkeys and humans, but tasks that use more stringent, operant response tasks, like the matching-to-sample task, often report species differences. Moreover, the data suggest that monkeys may be less sensitive than chimpanzees and humans to the precise spacing of facial features, in addition to the surface-based cues reflected in those features, information that is critical for the representation of individual identity. The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of the available data from faceprocessing tasks in non-human primates with the goal of understanding the evolution of this complex cognitive skill.

show abstract

Developmental changes in face processing skills

Cited by 242 publications

References 41 publications

The development of facial emotion recognition: The role of configural information

The development of facial emotion recognition: The role of configural information

Receiver operating characteristic analysis of age-related changes in lineup performance

The evolution of face processing in primates

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About