Shah Punit, Happé Francesca, Sowden Sophie, Cook Richard, Bird Geoffrey
King's College London.
City University London.
Child Dev. 2015 Nov-Dec;86(6):1693-700. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12441. Epub 2015 Oct 5.
Newborn infants orient preferentially toward face-like or "protoface" stimuli and recent studies suggest similar reflexive orienting responses in adults. Little is known, however, about the operation of this mechanism in childhood. An attentional-cueing procedure was therefore developed to investigate protoface orienting in early childhood. Consistent with the extant literature, 5- to 6-year-old children (n = 25) exhibited orienting toward face-like stimuli; they responded faster when target location was cued by the appearance of a protoface stimulus than when location was cued by matched control patterns. The potential of this procedure to investigate the development of typical and atypical social perception is discussed.
新生儿优先朝向类似面部或“原型脸”的刺激，最近的研究表明成年人也有类似的反射性朝向反应。然而，对于这种机制在儿童期的运作情况却知之甚少。因此，开发了一种注意力提示程序来研究幼儿期的原型脸朝向。与现有文献一致，5至6岁的儿童（n = 25）表现出对类似面部刺激的朝向；当目标位置由原型脸刺激的出现提示时，他们的反应比由匹配的对照图案提示位置时更快。讨论了该程序在研究典型和非典型社会感知发展方面的潜力。
