ArticleDevelopmental psychology2015
Eye tracking reveals a crucial role for facial motion in recognition of faces by infants.
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- Infants' Gaze Patterns for Same-Race and Other-Race Faces, and the Other-Race Effect.Brain sciences · 2020Article
- How Our Gaze Reacts to Another Person's Tears? Experimental Insights Into Eye Tracking Technology.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- The Frozen Effect: Objects in motion are more aesthetically appealing than objects frozen in time.PloS one · 2019Article
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- Developmental changes in social attention and oxytocin levels in infants and children.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Audio-Visual Perception of Gender by Infants Emerges Earlier for Adult-Directed Speech.PloS one · 2017Article
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Abstract
Current knowledge about face processing in infancy comes largely from studies using static face stimuli, but faces that infants see in the real world are mostly moving ones. To bridge this gap, 3-, 6-, and 9-month-old Asian infants (N = 118) were familiarized with either moving or static Asian female faces, and then their face recognition was tested with static face images. Eye-tracking methodology was used to record eye movements during the familiarization and test phases. The results showed a developmental change in eye movement patterns, but only for the moving faces. In addition, the more infants shifted their fixations across facial regions, the better their face recognition was, but only for the moving faces. The results suggest that facial movement influences the way faces are encoded from early in development.
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