Face Perception across the Life-Span

• Main Author: Bozana Meinhardt-Injac (auth)
• Other Authors: Andrea Hildebrandt (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; face perception; development; Emotion Perception; Aging; Visual Processing; individual differences
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Face perception is a highly evolved visual skills in humans. This complex ability develops across the life-span, steeply rising in infancy, refining across childhood and adolescence, reaching highest levels in adulthood and declining in old age. As such, the development of face perception comprises...