Starting School Improves Preschoolers' Ability to Discriminate Child Faces

Children take many years to become as skilled as adults in differentiating among faces and there is debate about the role of face experience in improving their skills. Here we tested whether the increase in exposure to the faces of children associated with entering school leads to improved face discrimination for this face category. To do so, we compared the face discrimination abilities of 3- to 4-year-old children who began attending school …