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Joshua Juvrud¹, Jennifer L Rennels², Andrea J Kayl²

¹Department of Psychology, Uppsala University.

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Infant face processing differs based on caregiver experience. Female primary caregivers showed specialized female face processing, while distributed caregiving led to similar attention to male and female facial features.

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Area of Science:

Developmental psychology
Cognitive neuroscience
Infant face perception

Background:

Caregiver experience significantly shapes infant development.
Understanding infant face processing is crucial for developmental insights.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how caregiver experience (female primary vs. distributed caregiving) influences infant visual preferences and attention to facial features.
To explore the relationship between these behaviors and face recognition/visual search tasks.

Main Methods:

Assessed 10-, 14-, and 16-month-olds' visual preferences and attention to internal facial features of female-male face pairs.
Utilized face recognition and visual search tasks to evaluate novelty preferences, speed, and accuracy.

Main Results:

Infants preferred male faces irrespective of caregiver experience.
Attention to internal facial features of male and female faces correlated only in the distributed caregiving group.
Infants with female primary caregivers showed stronger correlations in performance across face processing tasks.

Conclusions:

Infants with female primary caregivers exhibit specialized processing of female faces.
Infants with distributed caregiving demonstrate similar attention patterns towards male and female facial features.
Caregiver experience plays a role in the development of infant face processing strategies.