Perception of face in early childhood

Autor	Vladimír Blažek
Organisation	Psychologický ústav AV ČR
Year	2009
Research type	study
Annotation	Newborn babies prefer a face or its scheme over other objects. The innate, so called three-point scheme is generally presupposed for face identification. The development of perception is very fast as demonstrated by more positive reactions to familiar faces, especially to mother´s face. There are several models to describe developments of face identification. Categorization can be considered a basic aspect of the development of cognitive processes. For example, distinguishing gender is not simply given or innate, it originate gradually and differentially: a child learns to recognize mother´s face as a prototype of female face and only from the category of female face can differentiate the category of male face. The ability to distinguish faces of different populations (so called other-race effect) and other facial attributes (attractiveness, mimic expressions etc.) develops in a similar way
Keywords	early ontogenesis, face perception
Research type	quantitative
Start date	31. 1. 2009
End date	14. 5. 2009
Obor	AN Psychology
Note	Blažek, V. (2009). Percepce obličeje v raném období. E-psychologie [online]. 3(2), 40-48. Available at WWW: . ISSN 1802-8853.
Email	blazek.vladimir@seznam.cz
Availability	available in the NRVDM electronic library
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Research location	Psychologický ústav AV ČR , Veveří 97, Brno 60200
Organisation	Psychologický ústav AV ČR
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