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The Role Of Racial Information In Infant Face Processing, Angela Nicole Hayden
The Role Of Racial Information In Infant Face Processing, Angela Nicole Hayden
University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations
The present research addressed the development of specialization in face processing in infancy by examining the roles of race and emotion. An other-race face among own-race faces draws adults’ attention to a greater degree than an own-race face among other-race faces due to the “other-race” feature in other-race faces. This feature underlies race-based differences in adults’ face processing. The current studies investigated the development of this mechanism as well as the influence that this mechanism has on emotion processing in infancy.
In Experiment 1, Caucasian 3.5- and 9- month-olds exhibited a preference for a pattern containing an Asian face among …