The development of face processing in infancy and early childhood : current perspectives / Olivier Pascalis and Alan Slater, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pascalis, Olivier.

Slater, Alan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Face perception in infants.

Face perception in children.

Physical Description:

viii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science, [2003]

Contents:

Part I. Innate and Early Aspects of Face Perception 1

Chapter 1 Face Perception at Birth and Beyond / Paul C. Quinn, Alan Slater 3

Chapter 2 Non-Specific Perceptual Biases at the Origins of Face Processing / F. Simion, V. Macchi Cassia, C. Turati, E. Valenza 13

Chapter 3 Infants Prefer Attractive Faces / Rebecca A. Hoss, Judith H. Langlois 27

Part II. The Role of Experience 39

Chapter 4 Newborn Face Recognition / I.W.R. Bushnell 41

Chapter 5 The Construction, Deconstruction, and Reconstruction of Infant Face Perception / Cara H. Cashon, Leslie B. Cohen 55

Chapter 6 Learning of Arbitrary Adult Voice-Face Pairings at Three Months of Age / Alan Slater, Paul C. Quinn, David J. Lewkowicz, Rachel Hayes, Helen Brookes 69

Chapter 7 The Development of Face Recognition Reflects an Experience-Expectant and Activity-Dependent Process / Charles A. Nelson 79

Chapter 8 Early Visual Experience is Necessary for the Development of Some-But not All- Aspects of Face Processing / Catherine J. Mondloch, Richard Le Grand, Daphne Maurer 99

Chapter 9 Infant Perception of Dynamic Faces: Emotion, Inversion and Eye Direction Effects / Laura Smith, Darwin Muir 119

Part III. Neurological Involvement 131

Chapter 10 The Role of Internally Generated Neural Activity in Newborn and Infant Face Preferences / James A. Bednar 133

Chapter 11 Early Face Recognition: What Can We Learn from a Myopic Baby Neural Network? / Dominique Valentin, Herve Abdi 143

Chapter 12 Perceiving and Acting on the Eyes: The Development and Neural Basis of Eye Gaze Perception / Mark H. Johnson, Teresa Farroni 155

Chapter 13 Hemispheric Dynamics in Infant Response to Colourful Faces / Di Catherwood, Vanessa Green, Kate Freiberg, Chris Holt 169

Chapter 14 The Development of Face Identification Skills: What Lies Behind the Face Module? / Kate Lawrence, Ruth Campbell 179

Part IV. Later Childhood 189

Chapter 15 Person Recognition by Young Children: Configural, Featural, and Paraphernalia Processing / Alejo Freire, Kang Lee 191

Chapter 16 Face Facts: Is the Development of Face Recognition in Early and Middle Childhood Really So Special? / Stephen C. Want, Olivier Pascalis, Mike Coleman, Mark Blades 207.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1590337751

OCLC:

52542565