Perhaps at first some children saw it as a game, a kind of ‘disguise’ that helped parents and adults in general to make even the youngest accept the obligation of the mask. But now-two years after the beginning of the pandemic – the first effects are beginning to be seen on children and in particular on their relational skills both with peers and with adults. In fact, among children from 6 to 14 years there is a percentage of error in the recognition of the faces of the wearer of the mask of about 20%. To give an account is a study conducted by theor Cognitive Research: Principles & Implications.
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Facial signals
By now the mask has become one of the tools of prevention from the contagion of Covid-19 to which we have become accustomed and who knows if – even after the possibility of removing it at least outdoors – some will not continue to wear it. But if on the one hand it protects us from infection, on the other it also creates some discomfort and not only because it makes breathing more tiring but also because it limits our social relationships. For example, if the nose and mouth are covered with a mask will we equally recognize the emotions of people close to us? Some research has already found that wearing the mask hinders facial recognition among adults.
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A study conducted in Italy at the Laboratory of Social Cognitive Neuroscience of the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Parma and published in Nature Scientific Reports. The results showed that participants recognize emotions of happiness and anger even when the faces are partially covered.
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Children and masks
In 2020 and until October 2021, 734 thousand newborns came into the world and are growing up surrounded by adults often covered in masks and, except for periods when the pandemic containment measures have been relaxed, they live in a closed world and projected inside families. With this new study, the researchers ator Therefore, they examined 72 children, aged six to 14, to see if their experience was similar to that of adults. “Faces are among the most important visual stimuli,” he says Erez Freud, associate professor of theor “We use the information we ‘read’ on the face to understand the different characteristics of a person, including gender, age, mood and intentions. Then we rely on this information for our social interactions”.
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Facial recognition tests
During the experiment, the faces of the people were presented with or without a mask, both upright and upside down. The researchers used the children’s version of the Cambridge face Memor Test Test, the most validated tool that measures facial perception skills in humans. In this way, they tested the ability of school-age children to recognize faces with and without a mask.
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Research shows that children’s facial perception skills are deeply impaired when people wear masks, and their difficulty is greater than in adults. Among children, in fact, a percentage of error in the recognition of people’s faces was found of about 20% compared to about 15% found among adults.
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More difficult to relate to others
The study also revealed that children process faces differently when the person they are looking at is wearing the mask. In fact, their ability to process the characteristics of the faces as a whole, in a holistic way as is generally the case, has failed and they have, instead, adopted a more analytical approach based on individual individual characteristics.
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“If facial recognition is compromised, there is a possibility that children’s ability to establish social interactions with their peers but also with teachers could also be compromised, and this could cause more important relationship problems. That is why we must pay attention to these aspects”, concludes the psychologist who announces the intention to also study the possible effects of masks on children’s school performance.
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