Developmental Commonalities between Object and Face Recognition in Adolescence

Juttner, Martin; Wakui, Elley; Petters, Dean and Davidoff, Jules B.. 2016. Developmental Commonalities between Object and Face Recognition in Adolescence. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 385. ISSN 1664-1078 [Article]

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Abstract or Description

In the visual perception literature, the recognition of faces has often been contrasted with that of non-face objects, in terms of differences with regard to the role of parts, part relations and holistic processing. However, recent evidence from developmental studies has begun to blur this sharp distinction. We review evidence for a protracted development of object recognition that is reminiscent of the well-documented slow maturation observed for faces. The prolonged development manifests itself in a retarded processing of metric part relations as opposed to that of individual parts and offers surprising parallels to developmental accounts of face recognition, even though the interpretation of the data is less clear with regard to holistic processing. We conclude that such results might indicate functional commonalities between the mechanisms underlying the recognition of faces and non-face objects, which are modulated by different task requirements in the two stimulus domains.

Item Type:

Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00385

Keywords:

face perception, object perception, adolescence, development, object recognition, face recognition, categorical, metric, part, configural, holistic

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Psychology

Dates:

DateEvent
4 March 2016Accepted
15 March 2016Published

Item ID:

25900

Date Deposited:

27 Feb 2019 10:01

Last Modified:

04 Aug 2021 03:30

Peer Reviewed:

Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/25900

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