Linguistic and developmental influences on superordinate facial configuration categorization in infancy

Infancy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley L. Ruba ◽  
Andrew N. Meltzoff ◽  
Betty M. Repacholi
Keyword(s):  
Facial Configuration

Effects of Infant Cleft Lip on Adult Gaze and Perceptions of “Cuteness”

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 562-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rayson Holly ◽  
E. Parsons Christine ◽  
S. Young Katherine ◽  
Timothy E.E. Goodacre ◽  
Morten L. Kringelbach ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cleft Lip ◽  
Eye Tracker ◽  
Gaze Behavior ◽  
Social Exchanges ◽  
Healthy Development ◽  
Gaze Patterns ◽  
Adult Participants ◽  
Facial Configuration ◽  
Infant Faces ◽  
Fixation Bias

Objective: Early mother-infant interactions are impaired in the context of infant cleft lip and are associated with adverse child psychological outcomes, but the nature of these interaction difficulties is not yet fully understood. The aim of this study was to explore adult gaze behavior and cuteness perception, which are particularly important during early social exchanges, in response to infants with cleft lip, in order to investigate potential foundations for the interaction difficulties seen in this population. Methods: Using an eye tracker, eye movements were recorded as adult participants viewed images of infant faces with and without cleft lip. Participants also rated each infant on a scale of cuteness. Results: Participants fixated significantly longer on the mouths of infants with cleft lip, which occurred at the expense of fixation on eyes. Severity of cleft lip was associated with the strength of fixation bias, with participants looking even longer at the mouths of infants with the most severe clefts. Infants with cleft lip were rated as significantly less cute than unaffected infants. Men rated infants as less cute than women overall but gave particularly low ratings to infants with cleft lip. Conclusions: Results demonstrate that the limited disturbance in infant facial configuration of cleft lip can significantly alter adult gaze patterns and cuteness perception. Our findings could have important implications for early interactions and may help in the development of interventions to foster healthy development in infants with cleft lip.

Does audiovisual speech perception use information about facial configuration?

2001 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jari K. Hietanen ◽  
Petri Manninen ◽  
Mikko Sams ◽  
Veikko Surakka
Keyword(s):  
Speech Perception ◽  
Audiovisual Speech ◽  
Audiovisual Speech Perception ◽  
Facial Configuration

scholarly journals Maternal gaze to the infant face: Effects of infant age and facial configuration during mother-infant engagement in the first nine weeks

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 91-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo De Pascalis ◽  
Natalie Kkeli ◽  
Bhismadev Chakrabarti ◽  
Louise Dalton ◽  
Kyla Vaillancourt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Facial Configuration

A study of the growth changes in facial configuration

1993 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 493-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.-P. Chang ◽  
Z. Kinoshita ◽  
T. Kawamoto
Keyword(s):  
Facial Configuration ◽  
Growth Changes

Infants' responses to child and adult strangers: An investigation of height and facial configuration variables

1990 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Bigelow ◽  
Judith MacLean ◽  
Carolyn Wood ◽  
Janet Smith
Keyword(s):  
Facial Configuration

Does audiovisual speech perception use information about facial configuration?

2001 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jari K. Hietanen ◽  
Petri Manninen ◽  
Mikko Sams ◽  
Veikko Surakka
Keyword(s):  
Speech Perception ◽  
Audiovisual Speech ◽  
Audiovisual Speech Perception ◽  
Facial Configuration

scholarly journals Recognising the Usual Orientation of One's Own Face: The Role of Asymmetrically Located Details

Perception ◽  
10.1068/p3354 ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (7) ◽  
pp. 805-811 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serge Brédart
Keyword(s):  
Local Features ◽  
The Other ◽  
Configural Information ◽  
Familiar Face ◽  
Horizontal Orientation ◽  
Normal Orientation ◽  
Facial Configuration

Our ability to recognise the usual horizontal orientation of our own face (mirror orientation) as compared with another very familiar face (normal orientation) was examined in experiment 1. Participants did not use the same kind of information in determining the orientation of their own face as in determining the orientation of the other familiar face. The proportion of participants who reported having based their judgment on the location of an asymmetric feature (eg a mole) was higher when determining the orientation of their own face than when determining that of the other familiar face. In experiment 2, participants were presented with pairs of manipulated images of their own face and of another familiar face showing conflicting asymmetric features and configural information. Each pair consisted of one picture showing asymmetric features of a given face in a mirror-reversed position, while the facial configuration was left unchanged; and one picture in which the location of the asymmetric features was left unchanged, while the facial configuration was mirror-reversed. As expected from the hypothesis that asymmetric local features are more frequently used for the judgment of one's own face, participants chose the picture showing mirror-reversed asymmetric features when determining the usual orientation of their own face significantly more often than they chose the picture showing normally oriented asymmetric features when determining the orientation of the other face. These results are explained in terms of competing forward and mirror-reversed representations of one's own face.

Lesions of the fusiform face area impair perception of facial configuration in prosopagnosia

Neurology ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. J.S. Barton ◽  
D. Z. Press ◽  
J. P. Keenan ◽  
M. O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Fusiform Face Area ◽  
Face Area ◽  
Facial Configuration
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