Development of infants' attention to faces during the first year

被引：253

作者：

Frank, Michael C. ^{[1
]}

Vul, Edward ^{[1
]}

Johnson, Scott P. ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] MIT, Dept Brain & Cognit Sci, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

[2] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Psychol, Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA

来源：

COGNITION | 2009年 / 110卷 / 02期

关键词：

Infancy; Social development; Eye-tracking; Face perception; JOINT VISUAL-ATTENTION; HIGH-LEVEL POP; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; STIMULI; SHIFTS; SPECIALIZATION; SELECTIVITY; EXPOSURE;

D O I：

10.1016/j.cognition.2008.11.010

中图分类号：

B84 [心理学];

学科分类号：

04 ; 0402 ;

摘要：

In simple tests of preference, infants as young as newborns prefer faces and face-like stimuli over distractors. Little is known, however, about the development of attention to faces in complex scenes. We recorded eye-movements of 3-, 6-. and 9-month-old infants and adults during free-viewing of clips from A Charlie Brown Christmas (an animated film). The tendency to look at faces increased with age. Using novel computational tools, we found that 3-month-olds were less consistent (across individuals) in where they looked than were older infants. Moreover. younger infants' fixations were best predicted by low-level image salience, rather than the locations of faces. Between 3 and 9 months of age, infants gradually focused their attention on faces. We discuss several possible interpretations of this shift in terms of social development, cross-modal integration, and attentional/executive control. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：160 / 170

页数：11

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