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Scanning of own‐ versus other‐race faces in infants from racially diverse or homogenous communities
Author(s) -
Ellis Ann E.,
Xiao Naiqi G.,
Lee Kang,
Oakes Lisa M.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
developmental psychobiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.055
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1098-2302
pISSN - 0012-1630
DOI - 10.1002/dev.21527
Subject(s) - race (biology) , fixation (population genetics) , psychology , homogeneous , face (sociological concept) , demography , developmental psychology , gerontology , audiology , medicine , sociology , gender studies , population , mathematics , social science , combinatorics
We examined the role of community face experience on 6‐ and 8‐month‐old Caucasian infants’ scanning of own‐ and other‐race face scanning. We measured infants’ proportional fixation time and scan path amplitudes as indices of face processing. Proportional fixation time to informationally rich face regions varied as a function of age and face race for infants living in a racially homogeneous community, whereas scan path amplitudes varied as a function of age and face race for infants living in a racially diverse community. In both communities 6‐month‐old infants did not show different responding to own‐ and other‐race faces, whereas 8‐month‐old infants responded differently to own‐ and other‐race faces. However, 8‐month‐old infants from the two communities showed different patterns of cross‐race face scanning. Therefore, experience in the community beyond the home appears to contribute to the development of differential scanning of own‐ versus other‐race faces between 6 and 8 months of age.