Turati Chiara, Simion Francesca
Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padua, Italy.
J Exp Child Psychol. 2002 Dec;83(4):239-61. doi: 10.1016/s0022-0965(02)00148-0.
The present study investigated newborns' ability to discriminate, recognize, and learn visual information embedded in the schematic face-like patterns preferred at birth. Four experiments were carried out using the visual-paired comparison paradigm. Results indicated that newborns discriminated face-like stimuli relying on their internal features (Experiments 1 and 4) and recognized a perceptual invariance between face-like configurations in conditions of low (Experiment 2) and high-perceptual variability (Experiment 3) of their inner elements. Altogether, data show that the presence of the preferred structure that schematically defines a face, displaying a triplet of elements in the correct locations for eyes and mouth, does not constitute a limit that constrains newborns' face learning processes.
本研究调查了新生儿辨别、识别和学习出生时偏好的类似面部的示意性图案中所嵌入视觉信息的能力。使用视觉配对比较范式进行了四项实验。结果表明，新生儿依靠其内部特征辨别类似面部的刺激（实验1和4），并在其内部元素低感知变异性（实验2）和高感知变异性（实验3）的条件下识别类似面部构型之间的感知不变性。总之，数据表明，以示意方式定义面部、在眼睛和嘴巴的正确位置显示一组三个元素的偏好结构的存在，并不构成限制新生儿面部学习过程的因素。
