Contribution of Motion Information to Maternal Face Discrimination in Infancy

Autor/inn/en	Layton, Derek; Rochat, Philippe
Titel	Contribution of Motion Information to Maternal Face Discrimination in Infancy
Quelle	In: Infancy, 12 (2007) 3, S.257-271 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1525-0008
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Infants; Motion; Visual Stimuli; Visual Discrimination; Familiarity; Cues; Females; Age Differences; Habituation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Bewegungsablauf; Stichwort; Weibliches Geschlecht; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied
Abstract	The contribution of motion and feature invariant information in infants' discrimination of maternal versus female stranger faces was assessed. Using an infant controlled habituation--dishabituation procedure, 4- and 8-month-old infants (N = 62) were tested for their ability to discriminate between their mother and a female stranger in 4 different conditions varying whether motion or feature information about the faces was available. The faces were presented in a still or dynamic video image with either a positive or a negative contrast. In each condition, infants habituated to a stranger's face and then viewed, in 3 pairs of alternating novelty test trials, either a new stranger or their mother's face. Results show that motion information contributes to the 8-month-old infants', but not the 4-month-old infants' discrimination of maternal faces. These results are interpreted in relation to recent findings and models in the adult literature suggesting that there is an enhanced contribution of dynamic information in face recognition when the face is familiar. Our data confirm that from the outset, there is a complex interplay of feature and motion information in the discrimination of the mother's face when the viewing condition is not optimal. (Contains 1 table and 4 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10