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- Title
Race-Based Perceptual Asymmetry in Face Processing Is Evident Early in Life.
- Authors
Hayden, Angela; Bhatt, Ramesh S.; Kangas, Ashley; Zieber, Nicole; Joseph, Jane E.
- Abstract
Adults' processing of own-race faces differs from that of other-race faces. The presence of an 'other-race' feature (ORF) has been proposed as a mechanism underlying this specialization. We examined whether this mechanism, which was previously identified in adults and in 9-month-olds, is evident at 3.5 months. Caucasian 3.5-month-olds looked longer at a pattern containing a single Asian face among seven Caucasian faces than at a pattern containing a single Caucasian face among seven Asian faces. Homogenous and inverted face control conditions indicated that infants' preference was not driven by the majority of faces in arrays or by low-level features. Thus, 3.5-month-olds found the presence of an other-race face among own-race faces to be more salient than the reverse configuration. This asymmetry suggests sensitivity to an ORF at 3.5 months. Thus, a key mechanism of race-based processing in adults has an early onset, indicating rapid development of specialization early in life.
- Subjects
STATISTICAL correlation; EXPERIMENTAL design; FACE; INFANT psychology; SCIENTIFIC observation; RACE; RESEARCH funding; VIDEO recording; TASK performance; INTER-observer reliability; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; CHILDREN
- Publication
Infancy, 2012, Vol 17, Issue 5, p578
- ISSN
1525-0008
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1532-7078.2011.00098.x