Johnson M H, Dziurawiec S, Ellis H, Morton J
MRC Cognitive Development Unit, London, U.K.
Cognition. 1991 Aug;40(1-2):1-19. doi: 10.1016/0010-0277(91)90045-6.
Goren, Sarty, and Wu (1975) claimed that newborn infants will follow a slowly moving schematic face stimulus with their head and eyes further than they will follow scrambled faces or blank stimuli. Despite the far-reaching theoretical importance of this finding, it has remained controversial and been largely ignored. In Experiment 1 we replicate the basic findings of the study. In Experiment 2 we attempt a second replication in a different maternity hospital, and extend the original findings with evidence suggesting that both the particular configuration of features, and some aspects of the features themselves, are important for preferential tracking in the first hour of life. In Experiment 3 we use a different technique to trace the preferential tracking of faces over the first five months of life. The preferential tracking of faces declines during the second month. The possible causes and consequences of this observation are discussed.
戈伦、萨蒂和吴（1975年）声称，新生婴儿用头部和眼睛追踪缓慢移动的示意性面部刺激的距离，会比追踪杂乱的面部或空白刺激的距离更远。尽管这一发现具有深远的理论重要性，但它一直存在争议，且在很大程度上被忽视了。在实验1中，我们重复了该研究的基本发现。在实验2中，我们尝试在另一家妇产医院进行第二次重复，并扩展了原始发现，有证据表明特征的特定构型以及特征本身的某些方面，对于出生后第一小时的优先追踪很重要。在实验3中，我们使用了不同的技术来追踪出生后头五个月对面部的优先追踪。对面部的优先追踪在第二个月有所下降。我们讨论了这一观察结果可能的原因和后果。
