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  • Cognitive neuroscience
  • Visual perception

Background:

  • Adults exhibit an own-species bias (OSB) in face detection, prioritizing conspecific faces over heterospecific ones.
  • The developmental trajectory of OSB in infants, particularly during early infancy, remains largely unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether 6- and 11-month-old infants demonstrate OSB in face detection.
  • To examine the development of OSB under conditions of high perceptual load.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized remote eye tracking to measure infant and adult gaze patterns.
  • Infants and adults passively viewed visual arrays with a face among non-face distractors.
  • Assessed attention capture, attention holding, and detection likelihood for human versus animal faces.

Main Results:

  • Six-month-old infants showed a significant OSB, detecting human faces more efficiently than animal faces.
  • Human faces were detected more quickly (attention capture) and held attention longer in 6-month-olds compared to animal faces.
  • While 11-month-olds also showed OSB, the 6-month-olds' performance suggests an earlier emergence than previously thought.

Conclusions:

  • Six-month-old infants exhibit OSB in face detection efficiency, indicating early perceptual attunement to conspecific faces.
  • This early specialization for human face detection is foundational for developing social interaction abilities.
  • The findings challenge previous assumptions about the developmental timeline of OSB, suggesting it emerges earlier in infancy.