The Cambridge Face Memory Test for Children (CFMT-C): A new tool for measuring face recognition skills in childhood

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 60-67

  Croydon, Abigail ^a   Pimperton, Hannah ^b   Ewing, Louise ^c,d   Duchaine, Brad C ^e   Pellicano, Elizabeth ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Development; Face memory; Face recognition; Inversion effect

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE; ARTICLE; CAMBRIDGE FACE MEMORY TEST FOR CHILDREN; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; FACE RECOGNITION; FEMALE; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LEARNING AND MEMORY TEST; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY SCHOOL; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STIMULUS; VALIDITY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FACE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84905248349     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.07.008     Document Type: Article

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