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Robbins, Rachel A.; Shergill, Yaadwinder; Maurer, Daphne; Lewis, Terri L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
Adults are expert at recognizing faces, in part because of exquisite sensitivity to the spacing of facial features. Children are poorer than adults at recognizing facial identity and less sensitive to spacing differences. Here we examined the specificity of the immaturity by comparing the ability of 8-year-olds, 14-year-olds, and adults to…
Descriptors: Maturity (Individuals), Nonverbal Communication, Spatial Ability, Visual Discrimination
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Maurer, Daphne; Mondloch, Catherine J.; Lewis, Terri L. – Developmental Science, 2007
Early experience preserves and refines many capabilities that emerge prenatally. Here we describe another role that it plays--establishing the neural substrate for capabilities that emerge at a much later point in development. The evidence comes from sleeper effects: permanent deficits when early experience was absent in capabilities that normally…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Early Experience, Neurological Organization, Brain