TY  - JOUR
A1  - Krasotkina, Anna
A1  - Götz, Antonia
A1  - Höhle, Barbara
A1  - Schwarzer, Gudrun
T1  - Bimodal familiarization re-sensitizes 12-month-old infants to other-race faces
JF  - Infant behavior & development : an international and interdisciplinary journal
N2  - Perceptual narrowing in the domain of face perception typically begins to reduce infants' sensitivity to differences distinguishing other-race faces from approximately 6 months of age. The present study investigated whether it is possible to re-sensitize Caucasian 12-month-old infants to other-race Asian faces through statistical learning by familiarizing them with different statistical distributions of these faces. The familiarization faces were created by generating a morphed continuum from one Asian face identity to another. In the unimodal condition, infants were familiarized with a frequency distribution wherein they saw the midpoint face of the morphed continuum the most frequently. In the bimodal condition, infants were familiarized with a frequency distribution wherein they saw faces closer to the endpoints of the morphed continuum the most frequently. After familiarization, infants were tested on their discrimination of the two original Asian faces. The infants' looking times during the test indicated that infants in the bimodal condition could discriminate between the two faces, while infants in the unimodal condition could not. These findings therefore suggest that 12-month-old Caucasian infants could be re-sensitized to Asian faces by familiarizing them with a bimodal frequency distribution of such faces.
KW  - Bimodal
KW  - Unimodal
KW  - Familiarization
KW  - Statistical learning
KW  - Infant
KW  - Face
KW  - discrimination
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2020.101502
SN  - 0163-6383
SN  - 1879-0453
VL  - 62
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -