GENETIC INFLUENCES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPATIAL SKILLS DURING EARLY ADOLESCENCE
GENETIC INFLUENCES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPATIAL SKILLS DURING EARLY ADOLESCENCE
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DOI：
10.1016/0010-0277(83)90021-5
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发表时间：
1983-01-01
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影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
BACK, KJ
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作者：
DIAMOND, R;CAREY, S;BACK, KJ
面部编码技能的发展过程在青春期早期就被打乱了。有证据表明，这种破坏的时间受基因控制。无论她们的年龄如何，处于青春期变化中的女孩的面部编码效率都低于青春期前或青春期后的对照组。这种成熟对人脸编码的影响与青春期发育对另一种视觉空间能力的不同影响形成了对比，即嵌入图形测试(EFT)的表现。无论她们在测试时处于青春期状态，早熟的女孩在EFT上比晚熟的女孩处于劣势。EFT的结果重复了早先关于青春期开始年龄的个体差异与某些空间技能之间的关系的发现。讨论了几种可能的解释--成熟状态对面孔编码的影响和成熟率对EFT的影响。对身体和精神成长之间的关系的考虑被认为是解释认知发展的一个制约因素。
The course of development of skill at face encoding is disrupted in early adolescence. Evidence is provided that the timing of this disruption is under genetic control. Regardless of their age, girls in the midst of pubertal change encode faces less efficiently than prepubescent or postpubescent controls. This maturational influence on face encoding is contrasted with a different effect of pubertal development on another visuo-spatial ability, performance on the Embedded Figures Test (EFT). Regardless of their pubertal status at time of testing, girls who mature earlier are disadvantaged on EFT compared to those who mature later. The results for EFT replicate earlier findings on the relation between individual differences in the age at which adolescence begins and certain spatial skills. Several possible explanations for each of these effects—that of maturational status on face encoding and that of maturation rate on EFT—are discussed. Consideration of the relation between physical and mental growth is advocated as a source of constraints on explanations of cognitive development.