Are you a stranger? Research seeks to explain why kids cannot recognise familiar faces
Don't worry if your child doesn't remember Great Uncle Bob or Aunty Di – researchers are aware that kids have trouble remembering faces, and now they are trying to find out why.
Dr Rachel Robbins, from the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at the University of Western Sydney, is conducting a study of face recognition in children.
"We know that kids are worse at recognising faces than adults, however it is not clear why," says Dr Robbins.
"Are kids having trouble because of something that is specifically to do with faces, or is it because they have not yet acquired the memory strategies that adults have?"
Dr Robbins is calling on kids aged between 7 and 8 to participate in a UWS Bankstown campus study – to explore the ways that they recognise faces from different viewpoints.
Participation in this important computerised study will take half an hour and parents will be reimbursed $10 for travel costs.
To participate, contact Rachel Robbins: r.robbins@uws.edu.au, (02) 9772 6134.
The research protocol was reviewed and approved by the UWS Human Ethics Research Committee.
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04 September 2012
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