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| Research article summary (published 29 Nov 2002): |
Newborns' recognition of changing and unchanging aspects of schematic faces.
Full Abstract
The present study investigated newborns' ability to discriminate, recognize, and learn visual information embedded in the schematic face-like patterns preferred at birth. Four experiments were carried out using the visual-paired comparison paradigm. Results indicated that newborns discriminated face-like stimuli relying on their internal features (Experiments 1 and 4) and recognized a perceptual invariance between face-like configurations in conditions of low (Experiment 2) and high-perceptual variability (Experiment 3) of their inner elements. Altogether, data show that the presence of the preferred structure that schematically defines a face, displaying a triplet of elements in the correct locations for eyes and mouth, does not constitute a limit that constrains newborns' face learning processes.
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Author information
Author/s: Turati, Chiara (C); Simion, Francesca (F);
Affiliation: Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padua, Italy.
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal: Journal of experimental child psychology (J Exp Child Psychol), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Dec; vol 83 (issue 4) : pp 239-61
Dates: Created 2002/12/09; Completed 2003/04/04; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 12470960, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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