Why Faces Are Not Special to Newborns

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Are Emotions Natural Kinds? (2006, unknown): “Although infants do show an early preference for faces, this preference is due to general, perceptual preferences, and newborns do not recognize faces as faces per se (for a review, see Turati, 2004).”
The Uncanny Valley: Effect of Realism on the Impression of Artificial Human Faces (2007, background): “15 human faces, artificial faces of dolls and robots, computer generated facial images, schematic line drawings of faces, and even simple face-like patterns consisting of simple geometric shapes (Turati, 2004) are all accepted as “faces”.”
Development of human visual function. (2011, unknown): “Much evidence exists that, at an age before the onset of visual cortical functions more generally, newborn infants are specifically sensitive to some aspect of facial configurations (Dziurawiec and Ellis, 1986; Goren, Sarty, & Wu, 1975; Johnson & Morton, 1991; Simion, Valenza, & Umilta, 1998) or at ”
Processing Fluency and Aesthetic Pleasure: Is Beauty in the Perceiver's Processing Experience? (2004, background): “This finding can be explained by assuming the existence of innate processing biases that facilitate recognition of ru- dimentary face-like features (Turati, 2004).”