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CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 86, Issue 6, Pages 1693-1700Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12441
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- Medical Research Council
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/K008226/1]
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/G020523/1, ES/K008226/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G9817803] Funding Source: researchfish
- ESRC [ES/K008226/1, ES/G020523/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [G9817803] Funding Source: UKRI
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Newborn infants orient preferentially toward face-like or protoface stimuli and recent studies suggest similar reflexive orienting responses in adults. Little is known, however, about the operation of this mechanism in childhood. An attentional-cueing procedure was therefore developed to investigate protoface orienting in early childhood. Consistent with the extant literature, 5- to 6-year-old children (n=25) exhibited orienting toward face-like stimuli; they responded faster when target location was cued by the appearance of a protoface stimulus than when location was cued by matched control patterns. The potential of this procedure to investigate the development of typical and atypical social perception is discussed.
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