The composite face effect in six-year-old children: Evidence of adult-like holistic face processing
The composite face effect in six-year-old children: Evidence of adult-like holistic face processing
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10.1080/13506280600859383
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2007-01-01
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de Schonen, Scania
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作者：
Mondloch, Catherine J.;Pathman, Thanujeni;de Schonen, Scania
整体处理（i.例如，将面部特征粘合在一起形成完形）是成年人的专家面部识别的标志。即使在青春期，儿童在各种面孔加工任务中也比成人犯更多的错误。为了确定这种缓慢的发展是否可以归因于对陌生面孔的不成熟的整体处理，我们对6岁儿童（n = 24）进行了测试，采用了一种经典的成年人整体处理方法，即复合面孔效应：当每个上半部分与不同的下半部分结合时，他们对面孔对的上半部分做出了相同/不同的判断，与之对齐（因此整体处理会产生不同面孔的印象）或未对齐（破坏整体处理的操纵）。6岁的奥尔兹表现出类似成年人的复合面孔效应：和成年人一样，他们在对齐试验中的错误比在未对齐试验中的错误多26%。这些结果表明，6岁后的面部身份识别的改善不是由整体面部处理的开始或增加强度引起的。
Holistic processing (i. e., gluing facial features together into a gestalt) is a hallmark of adults' expert face recognition. Children make more errors than adults on a variety of face processing tasks even during adolescence. To determine whether this slow development can be attributed to immature holistic processing of unfamiliar faces, we tested 6-year-old children ( n = 24) with a classic measure of adults' holistic processing, the composite face effect: They made same/different judgements about the top halves of face pairs when each top half was combined with a different bottom half, with which it was aligned ( so that holistic processing creates the impression of a different face) or misaligned ( a manipulation that disrupts holistic processing). Six-year-olds showed an adult-like composite face effect : Like adults, they made 26% more errors on aligned trials than on misaligned trials. These results suggest that the improvements after age 6 in the recognition of the facial identity are not caused by the onset or increasing strength of holistic face processing.