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Evidence of the Face Inversion Effect in 4‐Month‐Old Infants
Author(s) -
Turati Chiara,
Sangrigoli Sandy,
Ruely Josette,
Schonen Scania
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
infancy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.361
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1532-7078
pISSN - 1525-0008
DOI - 10.1207/s15327078in0602_8
Subject(s) - habituation , psychology , novelty , inversion (geology) , developmental psychology , face perception , facial recognition system , cognitive psychology , audiology , social psychology , pattern recognition (psychology) , perception , neuroscience , medicine , paleontology , structural basin , biology
Abstract This study tested the presence of the face inversion effect in 4‐month‐old infants using habituation to criterion followed by a novelty preference paradigm. Results of Experiment 1 confirmed previous findings, showing that when 1 single photograph of a face is presented in the habituation phase and when infants are required to recognize the same photograph, no differences in recognition performance with upright and inverted faces are found. However, Experiment 2 showed that, when infants are habituated to a face shown in a variety of poses and are required to recognize a new pose of the same face, infants' recognition performances were higher for upright than for inverted faces. Overall, results indicate that, under some experimental conditions, 4‐month‐olds process faces differently according to whether faces are presented upright or inverted.