Automatic orienting towards face-like stimuli in early childhood
Shah, Punit and Sowden, S. and Happe, F. and Cook, Richard and Bird, Geoffrey (2015) Automatic orienting towards face-like stimuli in early childhood. Child Development 86 (6), pp. 1693-1700. ISSN 0009-3920.
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Abstract
Newborn infants orient preferentially toward face-like or “protoface” stimuli and recent studies suggest similar reflexive orienting responses in adults. Little is known, however, about the operation of this mechanism in childhood. An attentional-cueing procedure was therefore developed to investigate protoface orienting in early childhood. Consistent with the extant literature, 5- to 6-year-old children (n = 25) exhibited orienting toward face-like stimuli; they responded faster when target location was cued by the appearance of a protoface stimulus than when location was cued by matched control patterns. The potential of this procedure to investigate the development of typical and atypical social perception is discussed.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| School: | Birkbeck Schools and Departments > School of Science > Psychological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Richard Cook |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Feb 2018 14:42 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Feb 2020 10:30 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/21308 |
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