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Infants' Perception Of Faces In Face-Like And Ambiguous Images., Lauren E Dale
Infants' Perception Of Faces In Face-Like And Ambiguous Images., Lauren E Dale
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Faces are special to infants. Infants look longer at faces than objects, human faces than non-human faces, and upright faces compared to inverted faces. The objective of this study was to see if infants demonstrated signs of pareidolia. Pareidolia is the ability to see a face in a non-face object, such as a face in a cloud. Previous research has shown that adults see faces in everyday objects, but less is known about infants' perception of such images. In the present study, infants 7-9 months old (N = 47) were tested. Infants were shown eight images, which adults had …