Emotional expressions reinstate recognition of other-race faces in infants following perceptual narrowing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9789848 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul C Quinn (0000-0002-3816-3847, University of Delaware, corresponding author), Kang Lee (0009-0005-7219-5489, Canada Research Chairs), Olivier Pascalis (0000-0003-4609-3233, Université Grenoble Alpes), Naiqi G Xiao |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 15-27 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Developmental Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-1649 • E-ISSN: 1939-0599 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/dev0000858 |
| PMID | 31789529 |
| OpenAlex | W2994347402 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 11 |
Perceptual narrowing occurs in human infants for other-race faces. A paired-comparison task measuring infant looking time was used to investigate the hypothesis that adding emotional expressiveness to other-race faces would help infants break through narrowing and reinstate other-race face recognition. Experiment 1 demonstrated narrowing for White infants viewing neutral Asian faces: whereas 3-month-olds differentiated Asian faces, 6-month-olds did not. Experiment 2 showed that White 6-month-olds differentiated the same Asian faces depicted with angry or happy expressions. Experiments 3 and 4 yielded comparable results for 6- and 9-month-olds tested with Black faces (i.e., narrowing with neutral faces, reinstatement of sensitivity when the faces were presented with emotion). Experiment 5 showed that White 6-month-olds did not differentiate inverted angry or happy Asian faces, and that White 9-month-olds did not differentiate inverted angry or happy Black faces. Looking time during familiarization did not differ for upright neutral and emotional faces, indicating that the expressions did not yield more salient stimuli. Also, consistent with the inversion findings, analyses of the low-level image properties as well as equivalent pairwise similarity ratings obtained from White adults for the neutral and emotional faces indicated that the expressions did not simply create more discriminable stimuli. Without support for the lower-level accounts, we discuss the possibility that the infants processed the communicative intent of the expressions. Because angry faces pose threat and happy faces invite affiliation, expression may create motivation to individuate. Overall, the data suggest that early perceptual-social linkage in face representation can arise via a social-to-perceptual pathway. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Emotional expression · Face perception · Facial expression · Perception · Race (biology · Valence (chemistry · Communication · Face Recognition and Perception · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Multisensory perception and integration · Psychology
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