Mother's face recognition in newborn infants: learning and memory

Bushnell, Ian

doi:10.1002/icd.248

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“…the mother) appears most often, the FSA response to that face becomes stronger than to a similar stranger (Figure 7;Bednar and Miikkulainen (2002)). This result replicates the mother preference found in infants a few days old (Bushnell 2001;Pascalis et al 1995). Interestingly, the model no longer prefers the mother when her hair outline is masked, which is consistent with Pascalis et al's claim that newborns learn outlines only.…”

Section: Face Preference Experimentssupporting

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“…A number of studies have found that newborns prefer facelike patterns (Goren, Sarty, and Wu 1975;Johnson, Dziurawiec, Ellis, and Morton 1991;Simion, Valenza, and Umiltà 1998), and others show that newborns can discriminate between specific faces and learn to prefer a particular face within the first few hours and days after birth (Bushnell 2001;Pascalis, de Schonen, Morton, Deruelle, and Fabre-Grenet 1995). When shown moving schematic faces in the visual periphery, newborns and one-month-olds will follow them further than other similar patterns (Goren et al 1975;; see example schematics in Figure 6b-e).…”

Section: Development Of Face Detectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Development Of Face Detectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, an infant only a few days old prefers to look at its mother's face, relative to the face of a stranger (Bushnell 2001;Pascalis et al 1995). Presumably this preference results from postnatal visual experience of the mother's face (Bushnell 2001). Unlike the facial feature learning of CONLERN, this early learning has been thought to rely only on the external outline of the face, because the preference disappears when the face outline is masked (Pascalis et al 1995).…”

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Constructing visual function through prenatal and postnatal learning

Miikkulainen¹

2007

Neuroconstructivism Volume TwoPerspectives and Prospects

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Although environment-driven learning can explain much of postnatal neural development, substantial organization and functional ability is present even at birth. Recent experimental discoveries of widespread spontaneous neural activity suggest that prenatal development may utilize very similar mechanisms and principles as postnatal learning, driven by internally generated sources instead of the environment. This chapter shows how this idea can explain features of the organization and function of the primary visual cortex (V1) and higher level face-processing areas. Specifically, we simulate how neural preferences for contour orientation and human faces can develop prenatally from internally generated activity and postnatally from natural image stimuli. These simulations are based on HLISSOM, a hierarchical self-organizing model of the development of topographic neural maps. The results match experimental neuroimaging and psychophysical data from newborn and older animals and humans, and provide concrete predictions about infant behavior and neural activity for future experiments. They also suggest that combining internally generated activity with a learning algorithm is an efficient way to develop complex neural machinery.

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Section: Face Preference Experimentssupporting

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Section: Development Of Face Detectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Development Of Face Detectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Development Of Face Detectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Constructing visual function through prenatal and postnatal learning

Miikkulainen¹

2007

Neuroconstructivism Volume TwoPerspectives and Prospects

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“…Indeed, infants possess an innate face interest mechanism which facilitates early attention to faces (Morton & Johnson, 1991) and drives an early preference for looking at their mother's face over a stranger's face (e.g., Bushnell, 2001;Field, Cohen, Garcia & Greenberg, 1984;Pascalis, de Schonen, Morton, Deruelle, & Fabre-Grenet, 1995). This preference, which is present within the first days of life, enables the formation of the mother-infant relationship which is important for infant's social and emotional development (Bowlby, 1969;Blass & Camp, 2003).…”

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Infant face interest is associated with voice information and maternal psychological health

Taylor

Slade

Herbert

2014

Infant Behavior and Development

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Early infant interest in their mother's face is driven by an experience based face processing system, and is associated with maternal psychological health, even within a non clinical community sample. The present study examined the role of the voice in eliciting infants' interest in mother and stranger faces and in the association between infant face interest and maternal psychological health.Infants aged 3.5-months were shown photographs of their mother's and a stranger's face paired with an audio recording of their mother's and a stranger's voice that was either matched (e.g., mother's face and voice) or mismatched (e.g., mother's face and stranger's voice). Infants spent more time attending to the stranger's matched face and voice than the mother's matched face and voice and the mismatched faces and voices. Thus, infants demonstrated an earlier preference for a stranger's face when given voice information than when the face is presented alone. In the present sample, maternal psychological health varied with 56.7% of mothers reporting mild mood symptoms (depression, anxiety or stress response to childbirth). Infants of mothers with significant mild maternal mood symptoms looked longer at the faces and voices compared to infants of mothers who did not report mild maternal mood symptoms. In sum, infants' experience based face processing system is sensitive to their mothers' maternal psychological health and the multimodal nature of faces. Early infant interest in their mother's face is driven by an experience based face processing system, and is associated with maternal psychological health, even within a non clinical community sample. The present study examined the role of the voice in eliciting infants' interest in mother and stranger faces and in the association between infant face interest and maternal psychological health.Infants aged 3.5-months were shown photographs of their mother's and a stranger's face paired with an audio recording of their mother's and a stranger's voice that was either matched (e.g., mother's face and voice) or mismatched (e.g., mother's face and stranger's voice). Infants spent more time attending to the stranger's matched face and voice than the mother's matched face and voice and the mismatched faces and voices. Thus, infants demonstrated an earlier preference for a stranger's face when given voice information than when the face is presented alone. In the present sample, maternal psychological health varied with 56.7% of mothers reporting mild mood symptoms (depression, anxiety or stress response to childbirth). Infants of mothers with significant mild maternal mood symptoms looked longer at the faces and voices compared to infants of mothers who did not report mild maternal mood symptoms. In sum, infants' experience based face processing system is sensitive to their mothers' maternal psychological health and the multimodal nature of faces.

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Infant Visual Perception

Kellman¹,

Arterberry²

2007

Handbook of Child Psychology

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Mother's face recognition in newborn infants: learning and memory

Cited by 240 publications

References 18 publications

Constructing visual function through prenatal and postnatal learning

Constructing visual function through prenatal and postnatal learning

Infant face interest is associated with voice information and maternal psychological health

Infant Visual Perception

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