✦ LIBER ✦

Direct gaze may modulate face recognition in newborns

✍ Scribed by Silvia Rigato; Enrica Menon; Mark H. Johnson; Dino Faraguna; Teresa Farroni

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Weight: 300 KB
Volume: 20
Category: Article
ISSN: 1522-7227
DOI: 10.1002/icd.684

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Faces are important for non‐verbal communication in daily life, and eye gaze direction provides important information for adult–infant interaction. Four‐month‐old infants and adults better recognize faces when accompanied with direct gaze, suggesting a special status of ‘eye contact’. Whether mutual gaze plays a role in face recognition from birth, or whether it requires expertise, is investigated in this paper. We conducted a between subjects design, for a total of four experiments, two involving habituation (1a, 1b) and two involving preference tests (2a, 2b), to investigate newborns' ability to recognize faces when gaze direction is manipulated. We predicted that a face accompanied with direct gaze would be better recognized by newborns. In contrast, we expected no evidence of identity recognition when newborns were familiarized with a face with averted gaze. According with our expectations, newborns were able to recognize a face identity when previously familiarized with direct gaze, but not with averted gaze. However, this effect was face identity‐specific. Overall, our results suggest that direct gaze can modulate face processing and affects preferences and face identity learning in newborns. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Face recognition in the newborn infant

✍ Alan Slater; Paul C. Quinn 📂 Article 📅 2001 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 52 KB

In his thoughtful and scholarly review of the literature on face recognition, Charles Nelson gives evidence from a variety of sources to draw a number of conclusions. Two of these are entirely convincing: face recognition is 'special', and it is subserved by discrete neural systems. However, one of

Mother's face recognition in newborn inf

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

✍ I.W.R. Bushnell 📂 Article 📅 2001 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 101 KB

## Abstract Two studies are reported that address issues related to memory for faces in young infants. The first correlates the opportunity to view the mother's face with expressed visual preference for that face, and shows that very little exposure is required, with greater levels of exposure show

Functional characterization of an anti-e

Functional characterization of an anti-estradiol antibody by site-directed mutagenesis and molecular modelling: modulation of binding properties and prominent role of the VL domain in estradiol recognition

✍ Stéphane Coulon; Jean-Luc Pellequer; Thierry Blachère; Martine Chartier; Elisabe 📂 Article 📅 2002 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 288 KB

The high-affinity monoclonal anti-estradiol antibody 9D3 presents a specificity defect towards estradiol-3sulphate and 3-glucuronide conjugates incompatible with use in direct immunoassays. The corresponding single-chain variable fragment (scFv), cloned and produced in E. coli, exhibited a 10-fold l