PMID- 8829292
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19961211
LR  - 20190914
IS  - 0021-5236 (Print)
IS  - 0021-5236 (Linking)
VI  - 67
IP  - 2
DP  - 1996 Jun
TI  - [Effects of subjective-familiarity vs. unfamiliarity of faces on face recognition 
      in preschool children].
PG  - 127-33
AB  - The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of 
      subjective-familiarity vs. unfamiliarity and the age of faces (adult faces vs. 
      child faces) on immediate and delayed face recognition in preschool children. 
      Subjective-familiarity is a feeling that one takes unfamiliar faces as resembling 
      actual familiar ones. Fifty-six preschool children were given instructions which 
      made them focus on either Subjectively Familiar Face (SFF) or Unfamiliar Face 
      (UF), and No-Instruction (NI) condition was set as a control. In the SFF 
      condition the subjects were required to judge whether the faces resembled someone 
      they knew; in the UF condition they were required to pick out faces new to them. 
      The major findings were that the SFF instruction facilitated recognition scores 
      (d') and this tendency was especially strong in the delayed test. These results 
      were interpreted as showing that the SFF instruction enhanced information 
      processing at the constructional coding level. One of the reasons why preschool 
      children are deficient in recognizing unfamiliar faces is that they have not yet 
      developed the ability to process information at the constructional coding level.
FAU - Oyama, M
AU  - Oyama M
AD  - Department of Psychology, Faculty of Letters, Tokai Women's College, 
      Kakamigahara.
LA  - jpn
PT  - English Abstract
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Japan
TA  - Shinrigaku Kenkyu
JT  - Shinrigaku kenkyu : The Japanese journal of psychology
JID - 0413571
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - *Child, Preschool
MH  - *Cognition
MH  - *Face
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Photic Stimulation
MH  - *Psychology, Child
MH  - *Visual Perception
EDAT- 1996/06/01 00:00
MHDA- 1996/06/01 00:01
CRDT- 1996/06/01 00:00
PHST- 1996/06/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1996/06/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1996/06/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.4992/jjpsy.67.127 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Shinrigaku Kenkyu. 1996 Jun;67(2):127-33. doi: 10.4992/jjpsy.67.127.