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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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Lavenex, Pierre; Lavenex, Pamela Banta – Learning & Memory, 2006
This experiment assesses spatial and nonspatial relational memory in freely moving 9-mo-old and adult (11-13-yr-old) macaque monkeys ("Macaca mulatta"). We tested the use of proximal landmarks, two different objects placed at the center of an open-field arena, as conditional cues allowing monkeys to predict the location of food rewards hidden in…
Descriptors: Memory, Cues, Visual Discrimination, Spatial Ability