Learning unfamiliar faces in infants: The advantage of the regular sequence presentation and the three‐quarter view superiority |
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| Authors: | EMI NAKATO SO KANAZAWA MASAMI K. YAMAGUCHI |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Chuo University;2. This research was supported by Kakigi's group of RISTEX (Japan Science and Technology Agency), a Grant‐in‐Aid for Scientific Research (18300090) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and a Grant‐in‐Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (21119519) “Face perception and recognition” from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Japan to Masami K. Yamaguchi.;3. We thank Daisuke Yoshino, Hiromi Okamura, Aki Tsuruhara, Yumiko Otsuka, and Nobu Shirai for their help in collecting the data.;4. Japan Women's University |
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| Abstract: | We investigated the effect of the regular sequence of different views and the three‐quarter view effect on the learning of unfamiliar faces by infants. 3–8‐month‐old infants were familiarized with unfamiliar female faces in either the regular condition (presenting 11 different face views from the frontal view to the left‐side profile view in regular order) or the random condition (presenting the same 11 different face views in random order). Following the familiarization, infants were tested with a pair of a familiarized and a novel female face either in a three‐quarter (Experiment 1) or in a profile view (Experiment 2). Results showed that only 6–8‐month‐old infants could identify a familiarized face in the regular condition when they were tested in three‐quarter views. In contrast, 6–8‐month‐old infants showed no significant novelty preference in profile views. The results suggest that the regular sequence of different face views promotes the learning of unfamiliar faces by infants over 6 months old. Moreover, our findings imply that the three‐quarter view effect appears in infants. |
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| Keywords: | the effect of the regular sequence the three‐quarter view effect infants' face recognition |
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