Abstract
In visually complex environments, numerous items compete for attention. Infants may exhibit attentional efficiency-privileged detection, attention capture, and holding-for face-like stimuli. However, it remains unknown when these biases develop and what role, if any, experience plays in this emerging skill. Here, nursery-reared infant macaques' (Macaca mulatta; n = 10) attention to faces in 10-item arrays of nonfaces was measured using eye tracking. With limited face experience, 3-week-old monkeys were more likely to detect faces and looked longer at faces compared to nonfaces, suggesting a robust face detection system. By 3 months, after peer exposure, infants looked faster to conspecific faces but not heterospecific faces, suggesting an own-species bias in face attention capture, consistent with perceptual attunement. Child Development
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Journal | Child Development |
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| State | Accepted/In press - 2016 |
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- Developmental and Educational Psychology
- Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
- Education
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Face Detection and the Development of Own-Species Bias in Infant Macaques. / Simpson, Elizabeth A; Jakobsen, Krisztina V.; Damon, Fabrice; Suomi, Stephen J.; Ferrari, Pier F.; Paukner, Annika.
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AU - Paukner, Annika
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