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Holistic processing in mother's face perception for infants
Emi Nakato1, So Kanazawa2, Masami K Yamaguchi1
1Department of Psychology, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan.
Infant Behavior & Development
|February 19, 2018
Abstract:
In this study, we created composite faces using mothers' faces to examine holistic face processing in infants aged 5-8 months. The composite-face effect occurred only in infants aged 7-8 months, suggesting that infants older than 7 months are able to process familiar faces holistically.