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Adélaïde de Heering¹, Valérie Goffaux², Nicolas Dollion³

¹Institute of Research in Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. adelaide.deheering@uclouvain.be.

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Visual Perception

Background:

Adult face processing heavily relies on horizontal visual information.
The developmental trajectory of this horizontal information preference in infants is not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate 3-month-old infants' sensitivity to horizontal information in face perception.
To determine if horizontal visual cues influence early face recognition.

Main Methods:

Infants viewed faces and cars presented upright or inverted.
Stimuli included broadband, horizontal-only, vertical-only, and combined horizontal-vertical information.
Infants' looking behavior was recorded to measure visual attention.

Main Results:

Infants showed longer looking times for upright faces compared to upright cars.
This preference for upright faces was significant only when horizontal information was present (UNF, HV, H conditions).

Conclusions:

Horizontal visual information is crucial for face processing in 3-month-old infants.
Early face recognition in infants is influenced by specific facial features arranged in a top-heavy configuration, highlighted by horizontal cues.