Eye contact and face scanning in early infancy.

By M. Haith, T. Bergman, M. J. Moore. 1978

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Early Experience & Multisensory Perceptual Narrowing (2014, neutral): “That is, as reported in prior studies (Haith et al., 1977; Merin et al., 2007), 4-month-olds looked more at the eyes than the mouth.”
A mechanism for impaired fear recognition after amygdala damage (2005, background): “2a ); this is a pattern observed in humans as young as 7 weeks ol”
Eye to eye, face to face and brain to brain: novel approaches to study the behavioral dynamics and neural mechanisms of social interactions (2015, unknown): “The face is known to be of particular importance in this respect and whenever we look at a face the eyes are the primary and most consistent target of our visual attention [1].”
Perceived self in infancy (2000, background): “Major behavioral changes are reported by the second month, from the emergence of social smiling and change in face exploration (Wolff, 1987; Haith et al., 1977), to new levels of imitation and goal oriented actions (Meltzoff & Moore, 1994; Lewis et al., 1985).”
Face scanning in chimpanzees and humans: continuity and discontinuity (2010, background): “Studies in human infants have shown that infants dramatically increase fixations on the eye region at about 7 weeks of age (Haith et al. 1977).”
Infants deploy selective attention to the mouth of a talking face when learning speech (2012, background): “Older, 3–11-wk-old, infants also look more at the eyes and, even when they hear the face talking, they still look 10 times longer at the eyes than at the mouth (14).”
The enactive mind, or from actions to cognition: lessons from autism. (2003, background): “Three-montholds focus on the more emotionally revealing eye regions of the face (Haith et al. 1979), and 5-month-olds are sensitive to very small deviations in eye gaze during social interactions (Symons et al. 1998) and can match facial and vocal expressions based on congruity (Walker 1982).”
The eyes have it: the neuroethology, function and evolution of social gaze. (2000, background): “The eyes have long held special interest to humans; they are said to be the window to the soul [10], they are often used as symbols of a curse (evil eye) or as warning signals, but are also one of the ®rst points of contact between infants and their mothers [64].”