Infants’ Individuation of Faces by Gender
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Face Perception during Infancy
1.2. Beyond Perceptual Discrimination
1.3. Individuation of Natural Kinds
1.4. Current Study
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.1.1. 12-Month-Olds
2.1.2. 24-Month-Olds
2.2. Stimuli and Apparatus
2.3. Procedure
2.4. Reaching Behavior Coding
2.5. Analyses
3. Results
3.1. Condition 1: Human vs. Non-human
3.1.1. 12-Month-Olds
3.1.2. 24-Month-Olds
3.2. Condition 2: Female vs. Male
3.2.1. 12-Month-Olds
3.2.2. 24-Month-Olds
4. Discussion
4.1. Infants’ Representation of Human-Face Kinds
4.2. Infants’ Kind-Based Individuation and Gender
4.3. Connecting Perception to Conceptual Representations
4.4. Future Directions
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Pickron, C.B.; Cheries, E.W. Infants’ Individuation of Faces by Gender. Brain Sci. 2019, 9, 163. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci9070163
Pickron CB, Cheries EW. Infants’ Individuation of Faces by Gender. Brain Sciences. 2019; 9(7):163. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci9070163
Chicago/Turabian StylePickron, Charisse B., and Erik W. Cheries. 2019. "Infants’ Individuation of Faces by Gender" Brain Sciences 9, no. 7: 163. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci9070163