ReviewBrain sciences2014
A mechanistic approach to cross-domain perceptual narrowing in the first year of life.
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- Experience With Face Groups Impacts Face Processing, but Not Face Differentiation in 6- and 9-Month-Old Infants.Developmental psychobiology · 2025Article
- Diverse Face Images (DFI): Validated for racial representation and eye gaze.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- Toward characterization of perceptual specialization for faces in Multiracial contexts.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Visual Perception Is Highly Flexible and Context Dependent in Young Infants: A Case of Top-Down-Modulated Motion Perception.Psychological science · 2023Article
- The impact of face masks on infants' learning of faces: An eye tracking study.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies · 2023Article
- Calibrating Vision: Concepts and Questions.Vision research · 2022Review
- Face-to-face contact during infancy: How the development of gaze to faces feeds into infants' vocabulary outcomes.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
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- Infants use knowledge of emotions to augment face perception: Evidence of top-down modulation of perception early in life.Cognition · 2019Article
- Infants' Individuation of Faces by Gender.Brain sciences · 2019Article
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Abstract
Language and face processing develop in similar ways during the first year of life. Early in the first year of life, infants demonstrate broad abilities for discriminating among faces and speech. These discrimination abilities then become tuned to frequently experienced groups of people or languages. This process of perceptual development occurs between approximately 6 and 12 months of age and is largely shaped by experience. However, the mechanisms underlying perceptual development during this time, and whether they are shared across domains, remain largely unknown. Here, we highlight research findings across domains and propose a top-down/bottom-up processing approach as a guide for future research. It is hypothesized that perceptual narrowing and tuning in development is the result of a shift from primarily bottom-up processing to a combination of bottom-up and top-down influences. In addition, we propose word learning as an important top-down factor that shapes tuning in both the speech and face domains, leading to similar observed developmental trajectories across modalities. Importantly, we suggest that perceptual narrowing/tuning is the result of multiple interacting factors and not explained by the development of a single mechanism.
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