Samuels C A, Butterworth G, Roberts T, Graupner L, Hole G
Department of Psychology, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia.
Perception. 1994;23(7):823-31. doi: 10.1068/p230823.
The visual preferences of human infants for faces that varied in their attractiveness and in their symmetry about the midline were explored. The aim was to establish whether infants' visual preference for attractive faces may be mediated by the vertical symmetry of the face. Chimeric faces, made from photographs of attractive and unattractive female faces, were produced by computer graphics. Babies looked longer at normal and at chimeric attractive faces than at normal and at chimeric unattractive faces. There were no developmental differences between the younger and older infants: all preferred to look at the attractive faces. Infants as young as 4 months showed similarity with adults in the 'aesthetic perception' of attractiveness and this preference was not based on the vertical symmetry of the face.
研究人员探讨了人类婴儿对具有不同吸引力以及关于中线对称程度不同的面孔的视觉偏好。目的是确定婴儿对有吸引力面孔的视觉偏好是否可能由面部的垂直对称性介导。通过计算机图形技术制作了由有吸引力和无吸引力女性面孔照片合成的嵌合面孔。婴儿注视正常和嵌合的有吸引力面孔的时间比注视正常和嵌合的无吸引力面孔的时间更长。年幼婴儿和年长婴儿之间没有发育差异：所有婴儿都更喜欢注视有吸引力的面孔。年仅4个月的婴儿在对吸引力的“审美感知”方面与成年人表现出相似性，并且这种偏好并非基于面部的垂直对称性。
