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ISSN : 1229-0718
This experiment was designed to examine the exact pattern of development for face recognition, and to investigate the relationship between age of subjects and age of stimulus faces. Children aged 7, 9, 10, 11 and 12 years, and adults, were tested for the recognition of adults' and children's faces. The results demonstrated enhanced recognition of faces with age, but contrary to some early studies, reveals no developmental "dip" in face recognition. The results also showed that adults recognized adults' faces more accurately than children's faces, whereas children recognized children's faces as accurately as adults' faces. The implications and possible explanations for the pattern of results obtained are discussed.