The Relationships between Processing Facial Identity, Emotional Expression, Facial Speech, and Gaze Direction during Development

Autor/inn/en	Spangler, Sibylle M.; Schwarzer, Gudrun; Korell, Monika; Maier-Karius, Johanna
Titel	The Relationships between Processing Facial Identity, Emotional Expression, Facial Speech, and Gaze Direction during Development
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 105 (2010) 1-2, S.1-19 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0965
DOI	10.1016/j.jecp.2009.09.003
Schlagwörter	Nonverbal Communication; Eye Movements; Human Body; Emotional Response; Adults; Children; Reaction Time; Cognitive Processes; Age Differences; Classification; Correlation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Augenbewegung; Menschlicher Körper; Emotionales Verhalten; Child; Kind; Kinder; Reaktionsvermögen; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Korrelation
Abstract	Four experiments were conducted with 5- to 11-year-olds and adults to investigate whether facial identity, facial speech, emotional expression, and gaze direction are processed independently of or in interaction with one another. In a computer-based, speeded sorting task, participants sorted faces according to facial identity while disregarding facial speech, emotional expression, and gaze direction or, alternatively, according to facial speech, emotional expression, and gaze direction while disregarding facial identity. Reaction times showed that children and adults were able to direct their attention selectively to facial identity despite variations of other kinds of face information, but when sorting according to facial speech and emotional expression, they were unable to ignore facial identity. In contrast, gaze direction could be processed independently of facial identity in all age groups. Apart from shorter reaction times and fewer classification errors, no substantial change in processing facial information was found to be correlated with age. We conclude that adult-like face processing routes are employed from 5 years of age onward. (Contains 8 figures.) (As Provided).
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