1. When novelty prevails on familiarity: Visual biases for child versus infant faces in 3.5- to 12-month-olds
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Olivier Pascalis, Paul C. Quinn, Fabrice Damon, Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation [Dijon] (CSGA), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), University of Delaware [Newark], Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition (LPNC ), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), French National Research Agency (ANR)., and ANR-15-IDEX-0003,BFC,ISITE ' BFC(2015)
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media_common.quotation_subject ,[SHS.PSY]Humanities and Social Sciences/Psychology ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,050105 experimental psychology ,Visual behavior ,Developmental psychology ,novelty ,Child Development ,Bias ,Age groups ,Perception ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,Humans ,Visual attention ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Daily exposure ,Aged ,media_common ,child ,familiarity ,05 social sciences ,Novelty ,Recognition, Psychology ,visual biases ,infant ,face preference ,Multiple factors ,Face ,Infant Behavior ,Psychology ,050104 developmental & child psychology - Abstract
International audience; The current study examined the influence of everyday perceptual experience with infant and child faces on the shaping of visual biases for faces in 3.5-, 6-, 9-, and 12-month-old infants. In Experiment 1, infants were presented with pairs of photographs of unfamiliar child and infant faces. Four groups with differential experience with infant and child faces were composed from parents’ reports of daily exposure with infants and children (no experience, infant face experience, child face experience, and both infant and child face experience) to assess influence of experience on face preferences. Results showed that infants from all age groups displayed a bias for the novel category of faces in relation to their previous exposure to infant and child faces. In Experiment 2, this pattern of visual attention was reversed in infants presented with pictures of personally familiar child faces (i.e., older siblings) compared with unfamiliar infant faces, especially in older infants. These results suggest that allocation of attention for novelty can supersede familiarity biases for faces depending on experience and highlight that multiple factors drive infant visual behavior in responding to the social world.
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- 2021