title: Three-month-old infants' sensitivity to horizontal information within faces.
abstract: Horizontal information is crucial to face processing in adults. Yet the ontogeny of this preferential type of processing remains unknown. To clarify this issue, we tested 3-month-old infants' sensitivity to horizontal information within faces. Specifically, infants were exposed to the simultaneous presentation of a face and a car presented in upright or inverted orientation while their looking behavior was recorded. Face and car images were either broadband (UNF) or filtered to only reveal horizontal (H), vertical (V) or this combined information (HV). As expected, infants looked longer at upright faces than at upright cars, but critically, only when horizontal information was preserved in the stimulus (UNF, HV, H). These results first indicate that horizontal information already drives upright face processing at 3 months of age. They also recall the importance, for infants, of some facial features, arranged in a top-heavy configuration, particularly revealed by this band of information. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Dev Psychobiol 58: 536-542, 2016.
authors: Institute of Research in Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. adelaide.deheering@uclouvain.be.
authors: Adélaïde
authors: A
authors: de Heering
authors: Institute of Research in Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
authors: Valérie
authors: V
authors: Goffaux
authors: Developmental Ethology and Cognitive Psychology Group, Center for Smell, Taste, and Food Science, UMR 6265 CNRS - UMR 1324 INRA - Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France.
authors: Nicolas
authors: N
authors: Dollion
authors: Developmental Ethology and Cognitive Psychology Group, Center for Smell, Taste, and Food Science, UMR 6265 CNRS - UMR 1324 INRA - Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France.
authors: Ornella
authors: O
authors: Godard
authors: Developmental Ethology and Cognitive Psychology Group, Center for Smell, Taste, and Food Science, UMR 6265 CNRS - UMR 1324 INRA - Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France.
authors: Karine
authors: K
authors: Durand
authors: Developmental Ethology and Cognitive Psychology Group, Center for Smell, Taste, and Food Science, UMR 6265 CNRS - UMR 1324 INRA - Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France.|Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France.
authors: Jean-Yves
authors: JY
authors: Baudouin
mesh_terms: D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D000066499:Facial Recognition / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D012938:Social Perception; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: early experience; infant; vision