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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Année : 2005

Categorizing facial identities, emotions, and genders: Attention to high- and low-spatial frequencies by children and adults

C Deruelle
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Three age groups of participants (5-6 years, 7-8 years, adults) matched faces on the basis of facial identity. The procedure involved either low- or high-pass filtered faces or hybrid faces composed from two faces associated with different spatial bandwidths. The comparison stimuli were unfiltered faces. In the three age groups, the data indicated a significant bias for processing of low-pass information in priority. In a second task, participants were asked to identify the emotion (smiling or grimacing) or gender (male or female) of hybrid high-pass/low-pass faces. Opposite results emerged in the two tasks irrespective of the age group; the gender discrimination task indicated a bias for low-pass information, and the emotion task indicated a bias for high-pass information. These differences suggest independent processing routes for functionally different types of information such as emotion, gender, and identity. These routes are already established by 5 years of age. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Psychologie

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hal-01441275 , version 1 (19-01-2017)

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C Deruelle, J Fagot. Categorizing facial identities, emotions, and genders: Attention to high- and low-spatial frequencies by children and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2005, 90 (2), pp.172-184. ⟨10.1016/j.jecp.2004.09.001⟩. ⟨hal-01441275⟩

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