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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
School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences
Depositing User: Richard Cook
Date Deposited: 22 Feb 2018 14:42
Last Modified: 30 Jul 2025 09:02
URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/21308

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