Prunty Jonathan E, Jackson Kelsey C, Keemink Jolie R, Kelly David J
School of Psychology, Keynes College, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NP, UK.
Seattle Children's Innovative Technologies Lab, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA 98105, USA.
Brain Sci. 2020 Jan 17;10(1):53. doi: 10.3390/brainsci10010053.
Infants show preferential attention toward faces and detect faces embedded within complex naturalistic scenes. Newborn infants are insensitive to race, but rapidly develop differential processing of own- and other-race faces. In the present study, we investigated the development of attentional orienting toward own- and other-race faces embedded within naturalistic scenes. Infants aged six-, nine- and twelve-months did not show differences in the speed of orienting to own- and other race faces, but other-race faces held infants' visual attention for longer. We also found a clear developmental progression in attentional capture and holding, with older infants orienting to faces faster and fixating them for longer. Results are interpreted within the context of the two-process model of face processing.
婴儿对人脸表现出优先关注，并能在复杂的自然场景中识别出人脸。新生儿对种族不敏感，但会迅速发展出对自己种族和其他种族面孔的差异处理能力。在本研究中，我们调查了婴儿对自然场景中自己种族和其他种族面孔的注意力定向发展情况。6个月、9个月和12个月大的婴儿在定向到自己种族和其他种族面孔的速度上没有差异，但其他种族面孔吸引婴儿视觉注意力的时间更长。我们还发现，在注意力捕捉和保持方面有明显的发展进程，年龄较大的婴儿对面孔的定向速度更快，注视时间更长。研究结果在面孔加工的双过程模型背景下进行了解释。
