Normal adults have a remarkable capacity for face recognition. Each of us stores mental representations of thousands of faces and readily encodes new ones. The research proposed concerns: (a) the nature of those mental representations; (b) developmental changes in the nature of those representations; (c) the question of whether those developmental changes reflect acquisition of domain-specific knowledge of faces, per se, or more domain-general changes in pattern encoding and memorial skills; (d) the question of a possible maturational contribution to the development of face encoding skills.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01HD022166-02
Application #
3321552
Study Section
Human Development and Aging Subcommittee 1 (HUD)
Project Start
1986-08-01
Project End
1990-07-31
Budget Start
1987-08-01
Budget End
1988-07-31
Support Year
2
Fiscal Year
1987
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
City
Cambridge
State
MA
Country
United States
Zip Code
02139
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