Spatial and temporal factors in the development of second order relational processing

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This thesis examines whether the improvements in the efficiency of second-order relational processing that are seen across development are underpinned by changes in the spatial extent, the time course and the orientation range over which second- order relations are computed. The results showed that the spatial scale across which second-order relations are computed does not change with development, neither does the time course across which second-order relations are computed. The results did, however, demonstrate that there are developmental differences in the stopping rule used when participants are asked to detect differences between two faces. In addition, the results highlighted that younger participants adopted a more conservative response criterion compared with adults when asked to select an 'odd' face from a pair of faces. Finally, the results showed that the range of orientations across which faces can be processed using second-order relational processing increases with development.

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