Are you looking at me?” How children’s gaze judgments improve with age

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ID9788103
AuthorsIsabelle Mareschal (0000-0003-4378-600X, Queen Mary University of London, corresponding author), Yumiko Otsuka (UNSW Sydney), Colin W G Clifford (0000-0003-1043-6118, UNSW Sydney), Denis Mareschal (0000-0002-9828-9548, Birkbeck, University of London)
Year2016
Volume52
Issue5
Pages695-703
Publication date2016-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDevelopmental Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0012-1649 • E-ISSN: 1939-0599
PublisherAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1037/dev0000100
PMID26866727
OpenAlexW2312395380
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited10

Adults' judgments of another person's gaze reflect both sensory (e.g., perceptual) and nonsensory (e.g., decisional) processes. We examined how children's performance on a gaze categorization task develops over time by varying uncertainty in the stimulus presented to 6- to 11- year-olds (n = 57). We found that younger children responded "direct" over a wider range of gaze deviations. We also found that increasing uncertainty led to an increase in direct responses, across all age groups. A simple model to account for these data revealed that although younger children had a noisier sensory representation of the stimulus, most developmental changes in gaze were because of a change in children's response criteria (category boundaries). These results suggest that although the core mechanisms for gaze processing are already in place by the age of 6, their development continues across the whole of childhood. (PsycINFO Database Record

Categorization · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Gaze · MEDLINE · Perception · PsycINFO · Stimulus (psychology · Artificial Intelligence · Child and Animal Learning Development · Face Recognition and Perception · Multisensory perception and integration · Psychology

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