ArticleDevelopmental psychology2017
Why are faces denser in the visual experiences of younger than older infants?
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- Experience Alone Can Generate Human Face Specialization: Evidence From Deep Learning Models.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2026Article
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- Variations in face experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic affect infants' preference for their mother's face.PloS one · 2026Article
- Infant sensory gating and a developmental cascade to autistic traits and anxiety.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Review
- An Eccentricity Gradient Reversal across High-Level Visual Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Approximating Human-Level 3D Visual Inferences With Deep Neural Networks.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2025Article
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- Leveraging technological advances to assess dyadic visual cognition during infancy in high- and low-resource settings.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Curriculum Learning with Infant Egocentric Videos.Advances in neural information processing systems · 2023Article
- EgoActive: Integrated Wireless Wearable Sensors for Capturing Infant Egocentric Auditory-Visual Statistics and Autonomic Nervous System Function 'in the Wild'.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Acquiring Complex Communicative Systems: Statistical Learning of Language and Emotion.Topics in cognitive science · 2022Review
- Autism: The face value of eye contact.Current biology : CB · 2022Article
- Connectivity at the origins of domain specificity in the cortical face and place networks.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Finding Structure in Time: Visualizing and Analyzing Behavioral Time Series.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Eye tracking in an everyday environment reveals the interpersonal distance that affords infant-parent gaze communication.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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Recent evidence from studies using head cameras suggests that the frequency of faces directly in front of infants declines over the first year and a half of life, a result that has implications for the development of and evolutionary constraints on face processing. Two experiments tested 2 opposing hypotheses about this observed age-related decline in the frequency of faces in infant views. By the people-input hypothesis, there are more faces in view for younger infants because people are more often physically in front of younger than older infants. This hypothesis predicts that not just faces but views of other body parts will decline with age. By the face-input hypothesis, the decline is strictly about faces, not people or other body parts in general. Two experiments, 1 using a time-sampling method (84 infants, 3 to 24 months in age) and the other analyses of head camera images (36 infants, 1 to 24 months) provide strong support for the face-input hypothesis. The results suggest developmental constraints on the environment that ensure faces are prevalent early in development. (PsycINFO Database Record
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