Infant preference for individual women's faces extends to girl prototype faces.
Three- to 4-month-old infants reared by female caregivers display a spontaneous preference for individual adult women's over men's faces. Here we report that this preference extends to prototype girl over boy faces. The findings suggest transfer of gender-diagnostic facial information from individual adult to prototype child faces.
Quinn
Paul C
PC
University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA. pquinn@udel.edu
Conforto
Amanda
A
Lee
Kang
K
O'Toole
Alice J
AJ
Pascalis
Olivier
O
Slater
Alan M
AM
D017028:Caregivers; D002648:Child; D053483:Eye Movement Measurements; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D018730:Infant Behavior; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D035781:Siblings; D013997:Time Factors; D014796:Visual Perception; D044465:White People