Development of Face Detection in Preschool Children

Autor/inn/en	Meissner, Tobias W.; Prüfer, Helen; Nordt, Marisa; Semmelmann, Kilian; Weigelt, Sarah
Titel	Development of Face Detection in Preschool Children
Quelle	In: International Journal of Behavioral Development, 42 (2018) 4, S.439-444 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Meissner, Tobias W.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0165-0254
DOI	10.1177/0165025417738058
Schlagwörter	Preschool Children; Human Body; Cognitive Development; Adults; Age Differences; Task Analysis; Visual Stimuli; Handheld Devices; Social Behavior; Gender Differences; Bayesian Statistics; Child Development; Identification; Foreign Countries; Statistical Analysis; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Menschlicher Körper; Kognitive Entwicklung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Aufgabenanalyse; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Geschlechterkonflikt; Kindesentwicklung; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Ausland; Statistische Analyse; Deutschland
Abstract	We investigated the ability to detect a face among other visual objects in a complex visual array in 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children, as well as in adults. To this end, we used a visual search paradigm implemented on a touch-tablet device. Subjects (N = 100) saw up to eighty 3 × 3 visual search arrays and had to find and tap upon a target--a face or a car--among eight objects that served as distractors. Our data revealed a relative face detection advantage, which did not differ in its extent between children and adults. This suggests that, beginning in young childhood and ending in adulthood, face detection performance advances as a consequence of other cognitive functions such as a general advance in visual search performance. Our study closes a gap in the knowledge about the development of face detection--as a prototype for social stimuli and their capacity to attract attention--from early to middle childhood. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01