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
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