ABSTRACT
The earliest systematic studies of the development of face recognition abilities were carried out by A. G. Goldstein and J. E. Chance on school children of different ages. Children were first shown a set of unfamiliar faces and then at a later stage were required to select the previously encountered faces from a larger set of unfamiliar faces. Parents of young children are often all too embarrassingly aware that their offspring make category-inclusive errors of facial recognition. The origin of the multidimensional face space will be the central tendency of the dimensions and it is assumed that the feature dimensions of faces experienced will vary normally around the point. Correlation coefficients were computed between the linear distinctiveness rating of each face and the distance it lay from the origin of the space for all dimensional solutions. The most appropriate way to understand the developing face space is as an exemplar-based model.
