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Preference for Point-Light Human Biological Motion in Newborns: Contribution of Translational Displacement
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Bidet-Ildei, Christel; Kitromilides, Elenitsa; Orliaguet, Jean-Pierre; Pavlova, Marina; Gentaz, Edouard – Developmental Psychology, 2014
In human newborns, spontaneous visual preference for biological motion is reported to occur at birth, but the factors underpinning this preference are still in debate. Using a standard visual preferential looking paradigm, 4 experiments were carried out in 3-day-old human newborns to assess the influence of translational displacement on perception…
Descriptors: Neonates, Infant Behavior, Visual Stimuli, Visual Perception
Is the Face-Perception System Human-Specific at Birth?
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Di Giorgio, Elisa; Leo, Irene; Pascalis, Olivier; Simion, Francesca – Developmental Psychology, 2012
The present study investigates the human-specificity of the orienting system that allows neonates to look preferentially at faces. Three experiments were carried out to determine whether the face-perception system that is present at birth is broad enough to include both human and nonhuman primate faces. The results demonstrate that the newborns…
Descriptors: Neonates, Preferences, Visual Perception, Visual Discrimination
Human Newborns Match Tongue Protrusion of Disembodied Human and Robotic Mouths
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Soussignan, Robert; Courtial, Alexis; Canet, Pierre; Danon-Apter, Gisele; Nadel, Jacqueline – Developmental Science, 2011
No evidence had been provided so far of newborns' capacity to give a matching response to 2D stimuli. We report evidence from 18 newborns who were presented with three types of stimuli on a 2D screen. The stimuli were video-recorded displays of tongue protrusion shown by: (a) a human face, (b) a human tongue from a disembodied mouth, and (c) an…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Visual Perception, Visual Stimuli, Neonates
Newborns' Mooney-Face Perception
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Leo, Irene; Simion, Francesca – Infancy, 2009
The aim of this study is to investigate whether newborns detect a face on the basis of a Gestalt representation based on first-order relational information (i.e., the basic arrangement of face features) by using Mooney stimuli. The incomplete 2-tone Mooney stimuli were used because they preclude focusing both on the local features (i.e., the fine…
Descriptors: Neonates, Visual Perception, Visual Stimuli, Human Body
Newborns' Face Recognition over Changes in Viewpoint
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Turati, Chiara; Bulf, Hermann; Simion, Francesca – Cognition, 2008
The study investigated the origins of the ability to recognize faces despite rotations in depth. Four experiments are reported that tested, using the habituation technique, whether 1-to-3-day-old infants are able to recognize the invariant aspects of a face over changes in viewpoint. Newborns failed to recognize facial perceptual invariances…
Descriptors: Neonates, Profiles, Cognitive Processes, Visual Perception
Newborns' Face Recognition Is Based on Spatial Frequencies below 0.5 Cycles per Degree
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de Heering, Adelaide; Turati, Chiara; Rossion, Bruno; Bulf, Hermann; Goffaux, Valerie; Simion, Francesca – Cognition, 2008
A critical question in Cognitive Science concerns how knowledge of specific domains emerges during development. Here we examined how limitations of the visual system during the first days of life may shape subsequent development of face processing abilities. By manipulating the bands of spatial frequencies of face images, we investigated what is…
Descriptors: Neonates, Visual Perception, Cognitive Psychology, Human Body