Cassandra Adduri from the Perception and Action Lab will be giving a talk at the Prairie Undergraduate Conference this Friday April 28th at the University of Winnipeg.
Adduri, Cassandra, & Marotta, J. – Does Age Influence Face Recognition. University of Manitoba. To successfully interact with people, we must be able to recognize faces from different angles everyday. We are all experts at recognizing faces, even if we sometimes only see half of the features as would happen in a profile view. While we know that our visual system is very good at this task, we don’t fully understand the effects of aging of face recognition. This study compared a young adult population to an elderly population in a face matching task with upright and inverted faces shown at different orientations. The response speed and accuracy were measured. The elderly were slower at this task compared to the young adult population. While not significant, the elderly did show a general trend towards producing more response errors than their control subjects. These results suggest that there is a general decline in overall face recognition performance in elderly. This will serve as a valuable piece of information as we begin a larger study exploring the effects of Alzheimer’s Disease on face recognition, a disease affecting thousands of Canadians every year.
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