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Priming effects in children's face recognition
Author(s) -
Ellis Hadyn D.,
Ellis Diane M.,
Hosie Judith A.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1993.tb02465.x
Subject(s) - psychology , priming (agriculture) , identity (music) , facilitation , task (project management) , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , response priming , implicit memory , face (sociological concept) , cognition , lexical decision task , neuroscience , linguistics , physics , botany , germination , management , acoustics , economics , biology , philosophy
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.