Turati Chiara, Simion Francesca, Milani Idanna, Umiltà Carlo
Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy.
Dev Psychol. 2002 Nov;38(6):875-82.
Three experiments investigated whether the presence of more elements in the upper part of a configuration (i.e., up-down asymmetry) plays a role in determining newborns' preference for facelike patterns. Newborns preferred a nonfacelike stimulus with more elements in the upper part over a nonfacelike stimulus with more elements in the lower part (Experiment 1), did not show a preference for a facelike stimulus over a nonfacelike configuration equated for the number of elements in the upper part of the configuration (Experiment 2), and preferred a nonfacelike configuration located in the upper portion of the stimulus over a facelike configuration in the lower portion of the pattern (Experiment 3). Results demonstrated that up-down asymmetry is crucial in determining newborns' face preference.
三项实验探究了构型上部更多元素的存在（即上下不对称）在决定新生儿对面孔样图案的偏好方面是否起作用。新生儿更喜欢上部有更多元素的非面孔刺激，而不是下部有更多元素的非面孔刺激（实验1）；对于上部元素数量相等的面孔刺激和非面孔构型，新生儿没有表现出偏好（实验2）；并且更喜欢位于刺激上部的非面孔构型，而不是图案下部的面孔构型（实验3）。结果表明，上下不对称在决定新生儿的面孔偏好方面至关重要。
