The development of face recognition
Robert Johnston, Hadyn D. Ellis · 2002
The earliest systematic studies of the later development of face recognition abilities were carried out by Goldstein and Chance (1964) on school-children of different ages. Their initial experiments required children of 5, 8 and 13 years of age to perform a recognition memory task. Children were first shown a set of unfamiliar faces and then at a later stage were required to select these previously encountered faces from a larger set of unfamiliar faces. Performance in this task improved steadily across the three age groups tested.