Pickron Charisse B, Kutlu Ethan
Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
Department of Linguistics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States.
Front Psychol. 2024 Dec 3;15:1392042. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1392042. eCollection 2024.
This conceptual analysis focuses on opportunities to advance research and current hypotheses of perceptual development by examining what is presently known and unknown about perceptual specialization in a Multiracial context during the first year of life. The impact of being raised in a Multiracial family or community is discussed to further characterize the development of perceptual expertise for faces and languages. Historical and present-day challenges faced by researchers in defining what race is, identifying Multiracial individuals or contexts, and how to study perceptual and cognitive processes in this population are discussed. We propose to leverage current data from developmental Multilingual populations as a guide for future research questions and hypotheses characterizing perceptual specialization based on face race for Multiracial/Multiethnic individuals and contexts. Variability of input and the pattern of specialization are two factors identified from the developmental Multilingual literature that are likely useful for studying Multiracial contexts and development. Several methodological considerations are proposed in hopes of facilitating research questions and practices that are reflective of and informed by the diversity of experiences and social complexities within Multiracial populations.
本概念分析聚焦于通过审视生命第一年在多种族背景下关于感知专业化目前已知和未知的内容，来推进感知发展研究及当前假说。文中讨论了在多种族家庭或社区中成长的影响，以进一步刻画面部和语言感知专长的发展。还讨论了研究人员在定义种族是什么、识别多种族个体或情境以及如何研究该群体的感知和认知过程时所面临的历史和当今挑战。我们建议利用来自发展性多语言群体的现有数据，作为未来研究问题和假说的指导，这些问题和假说旨在刻画基于面部种族的多种族/多民族个体及情境的感知专业化。输入的可变性和专业化模式是从发展性多语言文献中确定的两个因素，它们可能有助于研究多种族背景和发展。本文提出了一些方法学上的考虑因素，以期促进能反映多种族群体经历多样性和社会复杂性并受其影响的研究问题及实践。
