Contrary to most findings in the field of developmental face perception, only a near-significant age effect is apparent in upright and un-manipulated presentation of stimuli, whereas a bigger difference between age groups can be observed for a condition which removes all but horizontal information of a face.
← all excerpts
Differences between Old and Young Adults' Ability to Recognize Human Faces Underlie Processing of Horizontal Information.
2
—
—
The sentences
Older subjects do not recognize horizontally filtered faces better than vertically filtered stimuli – at least statistically – even though a trend toward significance does exist for this comparison.