{"id":25306,"date":"2012-09-11T03:58:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T03:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25306"},"modified":"2012-09-11T04:33:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T04:33:38","slug":"biracial-and-monoracial-infant-own-race-face-perception-an-eye-tracking-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25306","title":{"rendered":"Biracial and monoracial infant own-race face perception: an eye tracking study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1467-7687.2012.01170.x\" target=\"_blank\">Biracial and monoracial infant own-race face perception: an eye tracking study<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/10.1111\/(ISSN)1467-7687\" target=\"_blank\">Developmental Science<\/a><br \/>\nPublished online: 2012-09-07<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1467-7687.2012.01170.x\" target=\"_blank\">10.1111\/j.1467-7687.2012.01170.x<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:sarah.gaither@tufts.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah E. Gaither<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nDepartment of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>Tufts University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/socialsciences.people.hawaii.edu\/faculty\/?dept=psy&amp;faculty=kpauker@hawaii.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Kristin Pauker<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>University of Hawaii<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psych.ucla.edu\/faculty\/faculty_page?id=133&amp;area=4\" target=\"_blank\">Scott P. Johnson<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Los Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We know that early experience plays a crucial role in the development of face processing, but we know little about how infants learn to distinguish faces from different races, especially for non-Caucasian populations. Moreover, it is unknown whether differential processing of different race faces observed in typically studied monoracial infants extends to biracial infants as well. Thus, we investigated 3-month-old Caucasian, Asian and biracial (Caucasian-Asian) infants\u2019 ability to distinguish Caucasian and Asian faces. Infants completed two within-subject, infant-controlled <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Habituation\" target=\"_blank\">habituation<\/a> sequences and test trials as an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eye_tracking\" target=\"_blank\">eye tracker<\/a> recorded looking times and scanning patterns. Examination of individual differences revealed significant positive correlations between own-race novelty preference and scanning frequency between eye and mouth regions of own-race habituation stimuli for Caucasian and Asian infants, suggesting that facility in own-race face discrimination stems from active inspection of internal facial features in these groups.<strong> Biracial infants, however, showed the opposite effect: An \u2018own-race\u2019 novelty preference was associated with reduced scanning between eye and mouth regions of \u2018own-race\u2019 habituation stimuli, suggesting that biracial infants use a distinct approach to processing frequently encountered faces.<\/strong> Future directions for investigating face processing development in biracial populations are discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1467-7687.2012.01170.x\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biracial and monoracial infant own-race face perception: an eye tracking study Developmental Science Published online: 2012-09-07 DOI: 10.1111\/j.1467-7687.2012.01170.x Sarah E. Gaither Department of Psychology Tufts University Kristin Pauker, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Hawaii Scott P. Johnson, Professor of Psychology University of California, Los Angeles We know that early experience plays a crucial role [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,6],"tags":[11815,276,11816,9692,11814,11813],"class_list":["post-25306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-new-media","tag-developmental-science","tag-kristin-pauker","tag-sarah-e-gaither","tag-sarah-gaither","tag-scott-johnson","tag-scott-p-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}