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Proficient use of low spatial frequencies facilitates face memory but shows protracted maturation throughout adolescence
- Source :
- Acta Psychologica, 179, 61-67. Elsevier B.V., Acta Psychologica, 179, 61-67. Elsevier
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Elsevier, 2017.
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Abstract
- Face perception is characterized by configural processing, which depends on visual information in the low spatial frequency (LSF) ranges. However, it is unclear whether LSF content is equally important for face memory. The present study investigated how face information in the low and high SF range plays a role in the configural encoding of faces for short-term and long-term recall. Moreover, we examined how SF-dependent face memorization develops in female adolescence, by comparing children (9-10-year-olds), adolescents (12-13-year-olds and 15-16-year-olds), and young adults (21-32-year-olds). Results show that similar to face perception, delayed face recognition was consistently facilitated by LSF content. However, only adults were able to adequately employ configural LSF cues for short-term recall, analogous to the slow maturation of LSF-driven configural face perception reported by previous studies. Moreover, the insensitivity to face inversion of early adolescents revealed their inadequate use of configural face cues regardless of SF availability, corroborating previous reports on an adolescent "dip" in face recognition. Like face perception, face recognition has a protracted maturational course. In (female) adolescence, sensitivity to configural LSF cues is developed, which aids not only configural face perception but also face memorization.
- Subjects :
- Aging
CHILDHOOD
Face (sociological concept)
CHILDREN
Facial recognition system
Memorization
Developmental psychology
0302 clinical medicine
EXPRESSIONS
Face perception
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Child
media_common
Spatial Memory
05 social sciences
General Medicine
Adolescence
Pattern Recognition, Visual
UPRIGHT
Female
Spatial frequency
Cues
Psychology
Facial Recognition
Adult
SEX-DIFFERENCES
Adolescent
media_common.quotation_subject
Spatial Learning
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
050105 experimental psychology
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
AGE
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Perception
Journal Article
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
QUALITATIVE CHANGES
Face recognition
Recall
RECOGNITION
CATEGORIZING FACIAL IDENTITIES
PERFORMANCE
Face memory
Mental Recall
Low spatial frequency
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00016918
- Volume :
- 179
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Acta Psychologica
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....caddbdcda0724b7e267d37df73846716