Orienting Toward Face-Like Stimuli in Early Childhood

Punit Shah; Francesca Happé; Sophie Sowden; Richard Cook; Geoffrey Bird

doi:10.1111/cdev.12441

Orienting Toward Face-Like Stimuli in Early Childhood

Punit Shah^*
, Francesca Happé
, Sophie Sowden
, Richard Cook
, Geoffrey Bird

^*Corresponding author for this work

Psychology

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1693-1700
Number of pages	8
Journal	Child Development
Volume	86
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12441
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2015

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Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
Education
Developmental and Educational Psychology

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