The Cambridge Face Memory Test for Children (CFMT-C): A new tool for measuring face recognition skills in childhood

NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

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Croydon, Abigail¹  Pimperton, Hannah²  Ewing, Louise^3,4  Duchaine, Brad C.⁵  Pellicano, Elizabeth^1,4 

[1] Univ London, Inst Educ, Ctr Res Autism & Educ CRAE, London WC1N 1AZ, England

[2] UCL, Inst Cognit Neurosci, London, England

[3] Birkbeck, Dept Psychol Sci, London, England

[4] Univ Western Australia, Sch Psychol, Perth, WA 6009, Australia

[5] Dartmouth Coll, Dept Psychol & Brain Sci, Hanover, NH 03755 USA

关键词: Face recognition;    Face memory;    Development;    Children;    Inversion effect;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.07.008

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Face recognition ability follows a lengthy developmental course, not reaching maturity until well into adulthood. Valid and reliable assessments of face recognition memory ability are necessary to examine patterns of ability and disability in face processing, yet there is a dearth of such assessments for children. We modified a well-known test of face memory in adults, the Cambridge Face Memory Test (Duchaine & Nakayama, 2006, Neuropsychologia, 44,576-585), to make it developmentally appropriate for children. To establish its utility, we administered either the upright or inverted versions of the computerised Cambridge Face Memory Test - Children (CFMT-C) to 401 children aged between 5 and 12 years. Our results show that the CFMT-C is sufficiently sensitive to demonstrate age-related gains in the recognition of unfamiliar upright and inverted faces, does not suffer from ceiling or floor effects, generates robust inversion effects, and is capable of detecting difficulties in face memory in children diagnosed with autism. Together, these findings indicate that the CFMT-C constitutes a new valid assessment tool for children's face recognition skills. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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