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Neural Correlates of Human and Monkey Face Processing in 9-Month-Old Infants

Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence suggests a gradual, experiencedependent specialization of cortical face processing systems that takes place largely in the 1st year of life. To further investigate these findings, event-related potentials (ERPs) were collected from typically developing 9-month-old infants presented with pictures of familiar and unfamiliar monkey or human faces in 2 d...

Left-Right Facial Orientation of Familiar Faces: Developmental Aspects of « the Mere Exposure Hypothesis »

We investigated the developmental aspect of sensitivity to the orientation of familiar faces by asking 38 adults and 72 children from 3 to 12 years old to make a preference choice between standard and mirror images of themselves and of familiar faces, presented side-by-side or successively. When familiar (parental) faces were presented simultaneously, 3- to 5-year-olds showed no preference, but...

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Follow My Gaze: Face Race and Sex Influence GazeCued Attention in Infancy

Using the eye gaze of others to direct one’s own attention develops during the first year of life and is thought to be an important skill for learning and social communication. However, it is currently unclear whether infants differentially attend to and encode objects cued by the eye gaze of individuals within familiar groups (e.g., own race, more familiar sex) relative to unfamiliar groups (e...

Five- and eight-month-old infants recognize their faces and voices as familiar and social stimuli.

Five- and 8-month-old infants were presented with silent moving and static video images of self, peer, and doll and with sounds of self, peer, and nonsocial objects. In the visual conditions, infants at both ages showed a significant looking preference to peer over self when the faces were moving. When the faces were static, older infants showed the same significant discriminations, but the you...