Daphne Maurer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3658503 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daphne Maurer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daphne |
| FAMILY NAME | Maurer |
| SIGNATURE | MAURER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7682-3730 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Continued care and provision of glasses are necessary to improve visual and academic outcomes in children
The prevalence of amblyopia and other visual problems was not reduced in Grade 2 by our SK vision screening program, perhaps because of poor treatment compliance and high attrition. The results suggest that a single screening intervention is insufficient to reduce visual problems among young children. However, the data from individuals with amblyopia suggest that continuing vision care and access to glasses benefits children, especially children …
Economic evaluations of vision screening to detect amblyopia and refractive errors in children
The relationship between discrimination and memory for spacing and feature changes in houses
Adults need to discriminate between stimuli and recognize those previously seen. For faces, feature changes (e.g., different eyes) and spacing changes (e.g., distances between eyes) are important cues. In two experiments, we assessed the influence of these on discrimination and recognition of houses, a commonly used control in face studies. In both experiments, discrimination was better for feature than spacing changes. Memory for spacing changes…
What Atypical Adults Can Teach Us about Development
In my presidential address, I described the early trap I fell into of describing the super‐baby capable of one after another adult perceptual ability, then how I discovered that two atypical populations of adults allowed me to study developmental mechanisms , namely, the role of early sensory input in sculpting the nervous system and the biological preparedness that constrains the experiential effects. Specifically, studies of adults who had dens…
Starting School Improves Preschoolers' Ability to Discriminate Child Faces
Children take many years to become as skilled as adults in differentiating among 5 faces and there is debate about the role of face experience in improving their skills. Here we tested whether the increase in exposure to the faces of children associated with entering school leads to improved face discrimination for this face category. To do so, we compared the face discrimination abilities of 3- to 4-year-old children who began attending school f…
Synesthesia
In this article, the authors introduce a new theoretical framework for understanding intersensory development. Their approach is based upon insights gained from adults who experience synesthesia, in whom sensory stimuli induce extra cross-modal or intramodal percepts. Synesthesia appears to represent one way that typical developmental mechanisms can play out by magnifying connections present in early life that are pruned and/or inhibited during d…
Contact and other-race effects in configural and component processing of faces
Other-race faces are generally recognized more poorly than own-race faces. There has been a long-standing interest in the extent to which differences in contact contribute to this other-race effect (ORE). Here, we examined the effect of contact on two distinct aspects of face memory, memory for configuration and for components, both of which are better for own-race than other-race faces. Configural and component memory were measured using recogni…
The many faces of configural processing
The solution process in children's matching-to-sample
Contact and other-race effects in configural and component processing of faces
Other-race faces are generally recognized more poorly than own-race faces. There has been a long-standing interest in the extent to which differences in contact contribute to this other-race effect (ORE). Here, we examined the effect of contact on two distinct aspects of face memory, memory for configuration and for components, both of which are better for own-race than other-race faces. Configural and component memory were measured using recogni…
Synesthesia
In this article, the authors introduce a new theoretical framework for understanding intersensory development. Their approach is based upon insights gained from adults who experience synesthesia, in whom sensory stimuli induce extra cross-modal or intramodal percepts. Synesthesia appears to represent one way that typical developmental mechanisms can play out by magnifying connections present in early life that are pruned and/or inhibited during d…
The solution process in children's matching-to-sample
The many faces of configural processing
Synesthesia
In this article, the authors introduce a new theoretical framework for understanding intersensory development. Their approach is based upon insights gained from adults who experience synesthesia, in whom sensory stimuli induce extra cross-modal or intramodal percepts. Synesthesia appears to represent one way that typical developmental mechanisms can play out by magnifying connections present in early life that are pruned and/or inhibited during d…
Contact and other-race effects in configural and component processing of faces
Other-race faces are generally recognized more poorly than own-race faces. There has been a long-standing interest in the extent to which differences in contact contribute to this other-race effect (ORE). Here, we examined the effect of contact on two distinct aspects of face memory, memory for configuration and for components, both of which are better for own-race than other-race faces. Configural and component memory were measured using recogni…
Starting School Improves Preschoolers' Ability to Discriminate Child Faces
Children take many years to become as skilled as adults in differentiating among 5 faces and there is debate about the role of face experience in improving their skills. Here we tested whether the increase in exposure to the faces of children associated with entering school leads to improved face discrimination for this face category. To do so, we compared the face discrimination abilities of 3- to 4-year-old children who began attending school f…
What Atypical Adults Can Teach Us about Development
In my presidential address, I described the early trap I fell into of describing the super‐baby capable of one after another adult perceptual ability, then how I discovered that two atypical populations of adults allowed me to study developmental mechanisms , namely, the role of early sensory input in sculpting the nervous system and the biological preparedness that constrains the experiential effects. Specifically, studies of adults who had dens…
The relationship between discrimination and memory for spacing and feature changes in houses
Adults need to discriminate between stimuli and recognize those previously seen. For faces, feature changes (e.g., different eyes) and spacing changes (e.g., distances between eyes) are important cues. In two experiments, we assessed the influence of these on discrimination and recognition of houses, a commonly used control in face studies. In both experiments, discrimination was better for feature than spacing changes. Memory for spacing changes…
Economic evaluations of vision screening to detect amblyopia and refractive errors in children
Continued care and provision of glasses are necessary to improve visual and academic outcomes in children
The prevalence of amblyopia and other visual problems was not reduced in Grade 2 by our SK vision screening program, perhaps because of poor treatment compliance and high attrition. The results suggest that a single screening intervention is insufficient to reduce visual problems among young children. However, the data from individuals with amblyopia suggest that continuing vision care and access to glasses benefits children, especially children …
Psychology (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Neuroscience (5 works) · Face Recognition and Perception (4 works) · Perception (4 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (3 works) · Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques (2 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (2 works) · Cognition (2 works)