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Priming effects in children's face recognition
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1993
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Individual DifferencesFace RecognitionCognitionAttentionHuman MemoryExplicit MemoryPsychologyReaction TimeSocial SciencesDevelopmental PsychologyFace DetectionFacial Recognition SystemVisual CognitionCognitive DevelopmentMemoryChild PsychologyCognitive ScienceHuman CognitionInfant CognitionExperimental PsychologyExplore IdentitySocial CognitionImplicit MemoryIdentity PrimingAffect PerceptionCognitive Psychology
Two experiments are described that explore identity priming to faces in children and young adults. Experiment 1 indicated that subjects of five years show the same identity priming reaction time (RT) advantage as older children in a face familiarity task. In the second experiment, five‐year‐olds and young adults were tested on a task involving identity priming (same picture on each occasion) and non‐identity priming (different view of the face on the second occasion). Again the RTs for familiarity judgements were qualitatively the same across ages. For each group, identity priming produced a greater facilitation than non‐identity priming. The data are considered alongside those showing the absence of developmental changes in implicit memory.