This study compared the effect of stimulus inversion on 3- to 5-year-olds' recognition of faces and two nonface object categories matched with faces for a number of attributes: shoes (Experiment 1) and frontal images of cars (Experiments 2 and 3). The inversion effect was present for faces but not shoes at 3 years of age (Experiment 1). Analogous results were found for boys when faces were compared with frontal images of cars. For girls, stimulus inversion impaired recognition of both faces and cars at 3 to 4 years of age, becoming specific to faces only at 5 years of age (Experiments 2 and 3). Evidence demonstrates that the ability to extract the critical cues that lead to adults' efficient face recognition is selectively tuned to faces during preschool years. © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Picozzi, M., MACCHI CASSIA, V., Turati, C., Vescovo, E. (2009). The effect of inversion on 3-to-5-year-old children recognition of face and non face visual objects. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY, 102, 487-502 [10.1016/j.jecp.2008.11.001].

The effect of inversion on 3-to-5-year-old children recognition of face and non face visual objects

PICOZZI, MARTA ANNA ELENA;MACCHI CASSIA, VIOLA MARINA;TURATI, CHIARA;
2009

Abstract

This study compared the effect of stimulus inversion on 3- to 5-year-olds' recognition of faces and two nonface object categories matched with faces for a number of attributes: shoes (Experiment 1) and frontal images of cars (Experiments 2 and 3). The inversion effect was present for faces but not shoes at 3 years of age (Experiment 1). Analogous results were found for boys when faces were compared with frontal images of cars. For girls, stimulus inversion impaired recognition of both faces and cars at 3 to 4 years of age, becoming specific to faces only at 5 years of age (Experiments 2 and 3). Evidence demonstrates that the ability to extract the critical cues that lead to adults' efficient face recognition is selectively tuned to faces during preschool years. © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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face recognition; preschool children; inversion effect
English
2009
102
487
502
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Picozzi, M., MACCHI CASSIA, V., Turati, C., Vescovo, E. (2009). The effect of inversion on 3-to-5-year-old children recognition of face and non face visual objects. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY, 102, 487-502 [10.1016/j.jecp.2008.11.001].
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