Turati Chiara, Macchi Cassia Viola, Simion Francesca, Leo Irene
Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padua, Italy.
Child Dev. 2006 Mar-Apr;77(2):297-311. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00871.x.
Existing data indicate that newborns are able to recognize individual faces, but little is known about what perceptual cues drive this ability. The current study showed that either the inner or outer features of the face can act as sufficient cues for newborns' face recognition (Experiment 1), but the outer part of the face enjoys an advantage over the inner part (Experiment 2). Inversion of the face stimuli disrupted recognition when only the inner portion of the face was shown, but not when the whole face was fully visible or only the outer features were presented (Experiment 3). The results enhance our picture of what information newborns actually process and encode when they discriminate, learn, and recognize faces.
现有数据表明，新生儿能够识别个体面孔，但对于驱动这种能力的感知线索却知之甚少。当前研究表明，面部的内部或外部特征都可以作为新生儿面部识别的充分线索（实验1），但面部外部比内部更具优势（实验2）。当只展示面部内部时，面部刺激的倒置会干扰识别，但当整个面部完全可见或只呈现外部特征时则不会（实验3）。这些结果让我们更清楚地了解新生儿在辨别、学习和识别面孔时实际处理和编码的信息。
