Presentation 2018-01-26
Sensitivity toward my own face in infancy
Hiroshi Nitta, Kazuhide Hashiya,
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Abstract(in English) Many research showed that adults evaluate face resembled to their own face more positively than unknown faces. However, it remains unknown how infants behave toward faces resembled to their own face. In the current study, we investigated whether the looking behavior of infants at the age of 10 -13 month toward their own face, another infant’s face and morphed face with direct and averted directions of gaze and head by using the preferential looking paradigm. In experimentⅠ(a two-choice preferential looking paradigm), infants looked longer another infant’s face than their own face and morphed face. In contrast, in experimentⅡ(a four-choice preferential looking paradigm), infants looked longer their own face and another infant’s face than two morphed faces only with direct gaze and head posuture. Our findings showed that 10-13 infants discriminated more sensitively between another infant’s face and other faces and preferred another infant’s face to their own face and a face resembled to their own face. Our study also indicated that enough exposure time and frequency might allow infants to discriminate their own face and a face resembled to their own face only with direct gaze.
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Keyword(in English) Infants / Face Perception / Preferential looking / Morphed face / Eye gaze
Paper # HCS2017-66
Date of Issue 2018-01-19 (HCS)

Conference Information
Committee HCS
Conference Date 2018/1/26(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Daiichi Institute of Technology
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Psychology and Life-stage of Communication, etc.
Chair Yukiko Nakano(Seikei Univ.)
Vice Chair Nobuyuki Watanabe(Kanazawa Inst. of Tech.) / Tomoo Inoue(Univ. of Tsukuba)
Secretary Nobuyuki Watanabe(Ritsumeikan Univ.) / Tomoo Inoue(Osaka Electro-Comm. Univ.)
Assistant Kazuki Takashima(Tohoku Univ.) / Ken Fujiwara(Osaka Univ. of Economic) / Kazunori Terada(Gifu Univ.) / Atsushi Kimura(Nihon Univ.)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Human Communication Science
Language JPN
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
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Title (in English) Sensitivity toward my own face in infancy
Sub Title (in English) Comparison to morphed faces
Keyword(1) Infants
Keyword(2) Face Perception
Keyword(3) Preferential looking
Keyword(4) Morphed face
Keyword(5) Eye gaze
1st Author's Name Hiroshi Nitta
1st Author's Affiliation Kyushu University(Kyushu Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Kazuhide Hashiya
2nd Author's Affiliation Kyushu University(Kyushu Univ.)
Date 2018-01-26
Paper # HCS2017-66
Volume (vol) vol.117
Number (no) HCS-420
Page pp.pp.1-6(HCS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2018-01-19 (HCS)