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VISION RESEARCH
Volume 43, Issue 26, Pages 2783-2793Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(03)00478-4
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face; processing; infant
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Two experiments examined whether 8-month-old infants process faces (photos in Experiment 1, schematic faces in Experiment 2) analytically by processing facial features independently of the facial context or configurally by processing the features in conjunction with the facial context. Infants were habituated to two faces and looking time was measured. After habituation they were tested with a habituation face. a switch face, or a novel face. In the switch faces, single features of the habituation faces were switched. The results showed that the infants processed facial features of photographs of faces configurally whereas they processed features of schematic faces (eyes, nose, facial contour) analytically. Thus, although infants have access to both processing modes, for real looking faces they use the configural mode. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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