Early maturity of face recognition: No childhood development of holistic processing, novel face encoding, or face-space

Cognition

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 219-247

  Crookes, Kate ^a   McKone, Elinor ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Children; Configural processing; Development; Face recognition; Face space; Holistic processing; Implicit memory; Novel faces; Repetition priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLICIT MEMORY; MALE; MATURATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECOGNITION; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; DOGS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63149157949     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.02.004     Document Type: Article

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