Peters Judith C, Kemner Chantal
Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands; Department of Neuroimaging and Neuromodeling, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Department of Developmental Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Department of Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2017 Sep;179:61-67. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2017.07.004. Epub 2017 Jul 18.
Face perception is characterized by configural processing, which depends on visual information in the low spatial frequency (LSF) ranges. However, it is unclear whether LSF content is equally important for face memory. The present study investigated how face information in the low and high SF range plays a role in the configural encoding of faces for short-term and long-term recall. Moreover, we examined how SF-dependent face memorization develops in female adolescence, by comparing children (9-10-year-olds), adolescents (12-13-year-olds and 15-16-year-olds), and young adults (21-32-year-olds). Results show that similar to face perception, delayed face recognition was consistently facilitated by LSF content. However, only adults were able to adequately employ configural LSF cues for short-term recall, analogous to the slow maturation of LSF-driven configural face perception reported by previous studies. Moreover, the insensitivity to face inversion of early adolescents revealed their inadequate use of configural face cues regardless of SF availability, corroborating previous reports on an adolescent "dip" in face recognition. Like face perception, face recognition has a protracted maturational course. In (female) adolescence, sensitivity to configural LSF cues is developed, which aids not only configural face perception but also face memorization.
面部感知的特点是构型加工，这依赖于低空间频率（LSF）范围内的视觉信息。然而，尚不清楚LSF内容对于面部记忆是否同样重要。本研究调查了低空间频率和高空间频率范围内的面部信息如何在短期和长期回忆的面部构型编码中发挥作用。此外，我们通过比较儿童（9至10岁）、青少年（12至13岁和15至16岁）和青年成年人（21至32岁），研究了依赖空间频率的面部记忆在女性青春期是如何发展的。结果表明，与面部感知类似，LSF内容始终有助于延迟面部识别。然而，只有成年人能够充分利用构型LSF线索进行短期回忆，这与先前研究报道的LSF驱动的构型面部感知的缓慢成熟情况类似。此外，青少年早期对面部倒置不敏感，这表明无论空间频率情况如何，他们对面部构型线索的利用都不充分，这证实了先前关于青少年面部识别能力“下降”的报道。与面部感知一样，面部识别也有一个漫长的成熟过程。在（女性）青春期，对构型LSF线索的敏感性得到发展，这不仅有助于构型面部感知，也有助于面部记忆。
