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Short, Lindsey A.; Hatry, Alexandra J.; Mondloch, Catherine J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
The current research investigated the organization of children's face space by examining whether 5- and 8-year-olds show race-contingent aftereffects. Participants read a storybook in which Caucasian and Chinese children's faces were distorted in opposite directions. Before and after adaptation, participants judged the normality/attractiveness of…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Interpersonal Relationship, White Students, Young Children
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Anzures, Gizelle; Mondloch, Catherine J.; Lackner, Christine – Child Development, 2009
A novel method was used to investigate developmental changes in face processing: attractiveness aftereffects. Consistent with the norm-based coding model, viewing consistently distorted faces shifts adults' attractiveness preferences toward the adapting stimuli. Thus, adults' attractiveness judgments are influenced by a continuously updated face…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Interpersonal Relationship, Adults, Young Children
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Vlach, Haley A.; Carver, Sharon M. – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2008
Education programs have fostered advanced levels of graphic representation ability in young children but have not detailed the specific mechanisms responsible for the accelerated growth. Research suggests that between 6 and 8 years of age children begin to observe more carefully before drawing and that observation prompts aid children's…
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Observation, Scores, Early Childhood Education