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Althaus, Nadja; Mareschal, Denis – Child Development, 2012
This article presents an eye-tracking study using a novel combination of visual saliency maps and "area-of-interest" analyses to explore online feature extraction during category learning in infants. Category learning in 12-month-olds (N = 22) involved a transition from looking at high-saliency image regions to looking at more…
Descriptors: Maps, Classification, Infants, Eye Movements
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Fair, Joseph; Flom, Ross; Jones, Jacob; Martin, Justin – Child Development, 2012
Six-month-olds reliably discriminate different monkey and human faces whereas 9-month-olds only discriminate different human faces. It is often falsely assumed that perceptual narrowing reflects a permanent change in perceptual abilities. In 3 experiments, ninety-six 12-month-olds' discrimination of unfamiliar monkey faces was examined. Following…
Descriptors: Primatology, Infants, Human Body, Experiments
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Otsuka, Yumiko; Konishi, Yukuo; Kanazawa, So; Yamaguchi, Masami K.; Abdi, Herve; O'Toole, Alice J. – Child Development, 2009
This study compared 3- to 4-month-olds' recognition of previously unfamiliar faces learned in a moving or a static condition. Infants in the moving condition showed successful recognition with only 30 s familiarization, even when different images of a face were used in the familiarization and test phase (Experiment 1). In contrast, infants in the…
Descriptors: Infants, Motion, Nonverbal Communication, Visual Stimuli
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Treiman, Rebecca; Cohen, Jeremy; Mulqueeny, Kevin; Kessler, Brett; Schechtman, Suzanne – Child Development, 2007
Four experiments examined young children's knowledge about the visual characteristics of writing, specifically personal names. Children younger than 4 years of age, even those who could read no simple words, showed some knowledge about the horizontal orientation of English names, the Latin letters that make them up, and their left-to-right…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Young Children, Written Language, Visual Perception
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Quinn, Paul C.; Intraub, Helene – Child Development, 2007
This investigation examined whether infants display "boundary extension"--a tendency to remember more of a visual scene than was presented. Three- to 7-month-olds were familiarized with a photograph of a visual scene, and tested with wide-angle versus close-up views of the scene. Infants preferred the close-up, indicating that they perceived the…
Descriptors: Photography, Infants, Pictorial Stimuli, Visual Perception
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Kahana-Kalman, Ronit; Walker-Andrews, Arlene S. – Child Development, 2001
Investigated the role of person familiarity in 3.5-month-olds' ability to recognize emotional expressions. Found that when more contextual information such as person familiarity was available, infants as young as 3.5 months recognized happy and sad expressions. Findings suggest that in early stages, infants are sensitive to contextual information…
Descriptors: Emotional Experience, Emotional Response, Facial Expressions, Familiarity
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Napolitano, Amanda C.; Sloutsky, Vladimir M. – Child Development, 2004
When presented simultaneously with equally discriminable, but unfamiliar, visual and auditory stimuli, 4-year-olds exhibited auditory dominance, processing only auditory information ( Sloutsky & Napolitano, 2003). The current study examined factors underlying auditory dominance. In 6 experiments, 4-year-olds (N181) were presented with auditory and…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Auditory Stimuli, Preschool Children, Visual Stimuli