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Article Dans Une Revue PLoS ONE Année : 2011

Perceptual training prevents the emergence of the other race effect during infancy.

Michelle Heron-Delaney
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Gizelle Anzures
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Jane S Herbert
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Paul C Quinn
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Alan M Slater
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James W Tanaka
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Kang Lee
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Experience plays a crucial role in the development of the face processing system. At 6 months of age infants can discriminate individual faces from their own and other races. By 9 months of age this ability to process other-race faces is typically lost, due to minimal experience with other-race faces, and vast exposure to own-race faces, for which infants come to manifest expertise [1]. This is known as the Other Race Effect. In the current study, we demonstrate that exposing Caucasian infants to Chinese faces through perceptual training via picture books for a total of one hour between 6 and 9 months allows Caucasian infants to maintain the ability to discriminate Chinese faces at 9 months of age. The development of the processing of face race can be modified by training, highlighting the importance of early experience in shaping the face representation.

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hal-00827864 , version 1 (29-05-2013)

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Michelle Heron-Delaney, Gizelle Anzures, Jane S Herbert, Paul C Quinn, Alan M Slater, et al.. Perceptual training prevents the emergence of the other race effect during infancy.. PLoS ONE, 2011, 6 (5), pp.e19858. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0019858⟩. ⟨hal-00827864⟩
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