Early and Later Experience with One Younger Sibling Affects Face Processing Abilities of 6-Year-Old Children

Autor/inn/en	Cassia, Viola Macchi; Proietti, Valentina; Pisacane, Antonella
Titel	Early and Later Experience with One Younger Sibling Affects Face Processing Abilities of 6-Year-Old Children
Quelle	In: International Journal of Behavioral Development, 37 (2013) 2, S.160-165 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0165-0254
DOI	10.1177/0165025412469175
Schlagwörter	Children; Cognitive Processes; Siblings; Cognitive Ability; Infants; Toddlers; Developmental Stages; Comparative Analysis; Perceptual Development; Human Body; Age Differences; Generalization; Learning Experience; Visual Stimuli; Photography; Adults; Participant Characteristics; Questionnaires + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Sibling; Geschwister; Denkfähigkeit; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Infants; Wahrnehmungsentwicklung; Menschlicher Körper; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Lernerfahrung; Fotografie; Fragebogen
Abstract	Available evidence indicates that experience with one face from a specific age group improves face-processing abilities if acquired within the first 3 years of life but not in adulthood. In the current study, we tested whether the effects of early experience endure at age 6 and whether the first 3 years of life are a sensitive period for the effects of experience on perceptual learning. To this end, we compared the effects of early (before age 3) and later (after age 5) experience with one younger sibling on 6-year-olds' processing of adult and infant faces. Unlike children without siblings, those with a younger sibling were equally skilled at differentiating faces of the two ages and showed a generalized inversion effect for both face ages, irrespective of when exposure to the sibling face began. Results indicate that face representation retains flexibility in response to extensive exposure to one facial identity even after age 3, and perceptual learning engendered by early experience continues to affect face-processing skills at 6 years. (Contains 4 figures and 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10