Is Face Processing Species-Specific During the First Year of Life?

By O. Pascalis, Michelle de Haan, Charles A. Nelson. 2002

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Early Experience & Multisensory Perceptual Narrowing (2014, neutral): “This novelty effect is similar to previously reported novelty effects in infancy in studies of multisensory perception (Gottfried, Rose, & Bridger, 1977) and of visual perception (Pascalis et al., 2002).”
Infants' Differential Processing of Female and Male Faces (2006, neutral): “Indeed, 9-month-olds perform almost like adults in being better able to recognize human faces than monkey faces, whereas 6-month-olds perform equally well in their recognition of human and monkey faces (Pascalis et al., 2002).”
Brief daily exposures to Asian females reverses perceptual narrowing for Asian faces in Caucasian infants (2012, background): “In the visual domain, perceptual narrowing is evident in infants’ better recognition memory of own-species and own-race faces over other-species and other-race faces (Kelly et al., 2007, 2009; Pascalis et al., 2002).”
Heterochrony and Cross-Species Intersensory Matching by Infant Vervet Monkeys (2009, background): “This, in turn, means that from a neurodevelopmental perspective, the vervets were well beyond the point when perceptual narrowing occurs in humans [20,21,24].”
Experience-dependent neural specialization during infancy. (2010, positive): “For example, 6onth-old infants equally distinguish between two monkey faces nd between two human faces, whereas 9-month-old infants and dults are better at distinguishing among human faces relative to onkey faces (Pascalis et al., 2002).”
The Origin of Biases in Face Perception (2009, background): “These results are consistent with previous reports of infants’ discrimination abilities at 6 months of age (Pascalis et al., 2002, 2005).”
Three-month-olds, but not newborns, prefer own-race faces. (2005, result): “Also, in concordance with earlier findings (Quinn et al. , 2002; Pascalis et al. , 2002; Pascalis et al. , 2005), the current data support the notion of a broad and unspecified face processing Three-month-olds, but not newborns, prefer own-race faces F35 © Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2005 system at…”
A Domain-General Theory of the Development of Perceptual Discrimination (2007, background): “This hypothesis is supported by recent reports examining the development of discriminatory abilities when infants view both monkey faces and faces of unfamiliar races (Kelly et al., in press; Pascalis et al., 2002; Pascalis et al., 2005).”