Recent studies demonstrated that in adults and children recognition of face identity and facial expression mutually interact (Bate, Haslam, & Hodgson, 2009; Spangler, Schwarzer, Korell, & Maier-Karius, 2010). Here, using a familiarization paradigm, we explored the relation between these processes in early infancy, investigating whether 3-month-old infants' ability to recognize an individual face is affected by the positive (happiness) or neutral emotional expression displayed. Results indicated that infants' face recognition appears enhanced when faces display a happy emotional expression, suggesting the presence of a mutual interaction between face identity and emotion recognition as early as 3months of age. © International Society on Infant Studies (ISIS).
Turati, C., Montirosso, R., Brenna, V., Ferrara, V., Borgatti, R. (2011). A Smile Enhances 3-Month-Olds’ Recognition of an Individual Face. INFANCY, 16(3), 306-317 [10.1111/j.1532-7078.2010.00047.x].
A Smile Enhances 3-Month-Olds’ Recognition of an Individual Face
TURATI, CHIARA;
2011
Abstract
Recent studies demonstrated that in adults and children recognition of face identity and facial expression mutually interact (Bate, Haslam, & Hodgson, 2009; Spangler, Schwarzer, Korell, & Maier-Karius, 2010). Here, using a familiarization paradigm, we explored the relation between these processes in early infancy, investigating whether 3-month-old infants' ability to recognize an individual face is affected by the positive (happiness) or neutral emotional expression displayed. Results indicated that infants' face recognition appears enhanced when faces display a happy emotional expression, suggesting the presence of a mutual interaction between face identity and emotion recognition as early as 3months of age. © International Society on Infant Studies (ISIS).
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