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Categorization, categorical perception, and asymmetry in infants' representation of face race.

Gizelle Anzures
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Paul C Quinn
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Alan M Slater
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Kang Lee
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The present study examined whether 6- and 9-month-old Caucasian infants could categorize faces according to race. In Experiment 1, infants were familiarized with different female faces from a common ethnic background (i.e. either Caucasian or Asian) and then tested with female faces from a novel race category. Nine-month-olds were able to form discrete categories of Caucasian and Asian faces. However, 6-month-olds did not form discrete categories of faces based on race. In Experiment 2, a second group of 6- and 9-month-olds was tested to determine whether they could discriminate between different faces from the same race category. Results showed that both age groups could only discriminate between different faces from the own-race category of Caucasian faces. The findings of the two experiments taken together suggest that 9-month-olds formed a category of Caucasian faces that are further differentiated at the individual level. In contrast, although they could form a category of Asian faces, they could not discriminate between such other-race faces. This asymmetry in category formation at 9 months (i.e. categorization of own-race faces vs. categorical perception of other-race faces) suggests that differential experience with own- and other-race faces plays an important role in infants' acquisition of face processing abilities.

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hal-00827873 , version 1 (29-05-2013)

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Gizelle Anzures, Paul C Quinn, Olivier Pascalis, Alan M Slater, Kang Lee. Categorization, categorical perception, and asymmetry in infants' representation of face race.. Developmental Science, 2010, 13 (4), pp.553-64. ⟨10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00900.x⟩. ⟨hal-00827873⟩
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