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Human face perception is relevant to many species‐important tasks and to their development; these tasks go beyond the recognition and discrimination of individuals and groups, and include speech perception, language learning, emotional development, and social behavior. Given the general importance of face perception and the information that faces convey to humans, it makes sense that human face perception – and its development – is highly constrained. One starting point for theoretical discussions of these constraints is the result, reported in two empirical studies, that newborns are biased to look at very simple ‘face‐like’ arrays (Goren, Sarty & Wu, ; Johnson, Dziurawiec, Ellis & Morton, ), a bias that does not characterize the better studied preferences of older infants (Johnson et al ., ). The neonatal bias is often interpreted in terms of a face template and innate face‐specific visual processes. The alternative to this claim about innateness has been more amorphous: that the neonatal preference arises from biases that are somehow more general. Within the context of this debate, the BCM provides a new hypothesis about a mechanism that might underlie neonatal face preferences, one that emerges from general principles of binocularity and current neurophysiological evidence about the
Developmental Science – Wiley
Published: Jan 1, 2014
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