Personal familiarity influences the processing of upright and inverted faces in infants

Infant face processing becomes more selective during the first year of life as a function of varying experience with distinct face categories defined by species, race, and age. Given that any individual face belongs to many such categories (e.g. A young Caucasian man’s face) we asked how t...

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Published in:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Main Authors: Benjamin J Balas, Charles A Nelson, Alissa Westerlund, Vanessa Vogel-Farley, Tracy Riggins, Dana Kuefner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2010-02-01
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/neuro.09.001.2010/full