How Experience Affects Infants’ Facial Categorization

Rennels, Jennifer L.; Kayl, Andrea J.

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“…According to the perspective of reward learning, frequent engagement with persons—usually, the caregivers—fuels a reward‐based learning process, known as reinforcement learning (Deák, Triesch, Krasno, de Barbaro, & Robledo, ). In fact, infants enjoy watching persons who show responses contingent to their behavior (Rennels & Kayl, ) and objects that are visually salient (Gredebäck, Johnson, & von Hofsten, ). An infant that voluntarily controls her attention rapidly discovers that she encounters attractive objects more frequently by following the gaze of adults.…”

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The Developmental Origins of Gaze‐Following in Human Infants

Bianco

Falck‐Ytter

Thorup

et al. 2018

Infancy

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During the first year of life, infants develop the capacity to follow the gaze of others. This behavior allows sharing attention and facilitates language acquisition and cognitive development. This article reviews studies that investigated gaze‐following before 12 months of age in typically developing infants and discusses current theoretical perspectives on early GF. Recent research has revealed that early GF is highly dependent on situational constraints and individual characteristics, but theories that describe the underlying mechanisms have partly failed to consider this complexity. We propose a novel framework termed the perceptual narrowing account of GF that may have the potential to integrate existing theoretical accounts.

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The Developmental Origins of Gaze‐Following in Human Infants

Bianco

Falck‐Ytter

Thorup

et al. 2018

Infancy

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“…Face categorization is especially pivotal in early infancy, subserving the ability to quickly learn to group together many different poses of the same face in one discrete category representing the identity of a face, at a time when forming attachment bonds with the primary caregiver represents a fundamental developmental task for infants (Scherf & Scott, 2012). Beyond identity perception, infants also develop the ability to extract perceptual commonalities and differences between faces that later correspond to conventional social divisions in their environment, in particular gender and race (Quinn et al, 2019(Quinn et al, , 2020Rennels & Kayl, 2017), through perceptual processes construed as underlying intergroup biases in adults (Lee et al, 2017;Quinn et al, 2018Quinn et al, , 2019. So far, however, infant categorization studies have focused on race and gender in isolation and the interaction between these attributes in the categorization process remains poorly understood.…”

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“…Given evidence that infants are natural statistical learners (Saffran & Kirkham, 2018), this feat can be realized without necessarily relying on pre‐existing knowledge about the stimuli, and category boundaries are then formed on‐line during the course of the experiment (Mareschal & Quinn, 2001). However, real‐world experience with faces may deeply influence infant detection of commonalities and correlations between facial features (for reviews see Quinn, 2010; Quinn et al, 2019; Rennels & Kayl, 2017).…”

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Asymmetrical responding to male versus female other‐race categories in 9‐ to 12‐month‐old infants

Damon

Quinn

Méary

et al. 2022

British J of Psychology

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Faces can be categorized along various dimensions including gender or race, an ability developing in infancy. Infant categorization studies have focused on facial attributes in isolation, but the interaction between these attributes remains poorly understood. Experiment 1 examined gender categorization of other‐race faces in 9‐ and 12‐month‐old White infants. Nine‐ and 12‐month‐olds were familiarized with Asian male or female faces, and tested with a novel exemplar from the familiarized category paired with a novel exemplar from a novel category. Both age groups showed novel category preferences for novel Asian female faces after familiarization with Asian male faces, but showed no novel category preference for novel Asian male faces after familiarization with Asian female faces. This categorization asymmetry was not due to a spontaneous preference hindering novel category reaction (Experiment 2), and both age groups displayed difficulty discriminating among male, but not female, other‐race faces (Experiment 3). These results indicate that category formation for male other‐race faces is mediated by categorical perception. Overall, the findings suggest that even by 12 months of age, infants are not fully able to form gender category representations of other‐race faces, responding categorically to male, but not female, other‐race faces.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Infant Development

2020

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How Experience Affects Infants’ Facial Categorization

Cited by 34 publications

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The Developmental Origins of Gaze‐Following in Human Infants

The Developmental Origins of Gaze‐Following in Human Infants

Asymmetrical responding to male versus female other‐race categories in 9‐ to 12‐month‐old infants

The Cambridge Handbook of Infant Development

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