title: Infants Rely More on Gaze Cues From Own-Race Than Other-Race Adults for Learning Under Uncertainty.
abstract: Differential experience leads infants to have perceptual processing advantages for own- over other-race faces, but whether this experience has downstream consequences is unknown. Three experiments examined whether 7-month-olds (range = 5.9-8.5 months; N = 96) use gaze from own- versus other-race adults to anticipate events. When gaze predicted an event's occurrence with 100% reliability, 7-month-olds followed both adults equally; with 25% (chance) reliability, neither was followed. However, with 50% (uncertain) reliability, infants followed own- over other-race gaze. Differential face race experience may thus affect how infants use social cues from own- versus other-race adults for learning. Such findings suggest that infants integrate online statistical reliability information with prior knowledge of own versus other race to guide social interaction and learning.
authors.affiliation: University of Toronto.|Princeton University.
authors.forename: Naiqi G
authors.initials: NG
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.affiliation: University of California, Riverside.
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: University of Delaware.
authors.forename: Paul C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Quinn
authors.affiliation: Zhejiang Sci-Tech University.
authors.forename: Shaoying
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Brown University.
authors.forename: Kristen S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Tummeltshammer
authors.affiliation: Birkbeck, University of London.
authors.forename: Natasha Z
authors.initials: NZ
authors.lastname: Kirkham
authors.affiliation: Zhejiang University.
authors.forename: Liezhong
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ge
authors.affiliation: LPNC-Université Grenoble Alpes.
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Pascalis
authors.affiliation: University of Toronto.
authors.forename: Kang
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D000066499:Facial Recognition / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005403:Fixation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D018730:Infant Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D044469:Racial Groups; D012938:Social Perception; D035501:Uncertainty