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Face Processing in Infancy: Developmental Changes in the Use of Different Kinds of Relational Information
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Bhatt, Ramesh S.; Bertin, Evelin; Hayden, Angela; Reed, Andrea – Child Development, 2005
Adults use both first-order, or categorical, relations among features (e.g., the nose is above the mouth), and second-order, or fine spatial relations (e.g., the space between eyes), to process faces. Adults' expertise in face processing is thought to be based on the use of second-order relations. In the current study, 5-month-olds detected…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Age Differences, Infants, Perceptual Development