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  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Human Perception

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  • Configural information, such as the spacing between facial features, is crucial for adult face processing expertise.
  • It remains unclear whether infants possess the ability to process this configural information.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if infants can be trained to process configural information in faces.
  • To determine the specificity of this training effect.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1: 3.5-month-old infants were tested on their ability to discriminate changes in facial feature spacing.
  • Experiments 2 & 3: Infants were primed with faces featuring altered spacing before discrimination tasks.
  • Experiment 4: Priming effectiveness was tested with inverted faces and faces with altered features but unchanged spacing.

Main Results:

  • Infants in Experiment 1 failed to discriminate spacing changes.
  • Priming with altered spacing (Experiments 2 & 3) enabled infants to process this information.
  • Priming was specific to upright faces and spacing changes, not feature alterations.

Conclusions:

  • Young infants can be induced to process facial configural information through priming.
  • Learning to encode structural facial information contributes to the development of face processing expertise in infancy.