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Increased ocus on the outh mong nfants in the irst ear of ife: ongitudinal ye‐racking tudy

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Tenenbaum, EJ; Shah, RJ; Sobel, DM; Malle, BF; Morgan, JL
Published in: Infancy
July 2013

This study examines face‐scanning behaviors of infants at 6, 9, and 12 months as they watched videos of a woman describing an object in front of her. The videos were created to vary information in the mouth (speaking vs. smiling) and the eyes (gazing into the camera vs. cueing the infant with head turn or gaze direction to an object being described). Infants tended to divide their attention between the eyes and the mouth, looking less at the eyes with age and more at the mouth than the eyes at 9 and 12 months. Attention to the mouth was greater on speaking trials than on smiling trials at all three ages, and this difference increased between 6 and 9 months. Despite consistent results within subjects, there was considerable variation between subjects. This raises the question of whether a developmental “norm” of face scanning in infancy ought to be pursued. Rather, these data add to emerging evidence suggesting that individual differences in face scanning might reliably predict aspects of later development.

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Published In

Infancy

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EISSN

1532-7078

ISSN

1525-0008

Publication Date

July 2013

Volume

18

Issue

4

Start / End Page

534 / 553

Publisher

Wiley

Related Subject Headings

  • Developmental & Child Psychology
  • 1701 Psychology
 

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Tenenbaum, E. J., Shah, R. J., Sobel, D. M., Malle, B. F., & Morgan, J. L. (2013). Increased Focus on the Mouth Among Infants in the First Year of Life: A Longitudinal Eye‐Tracking Study. Infancy, 18(4), 534–553. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-7078.2012.00135.x
Tenenbaum, Elena J., Rajesh J. Shah, David M. Sobel, Bertram F. Malle, and James L. Morgan. “Increased Focus on the Mouth Among Infants in the First Year of Life: A Longitudinal Eye‐Tracking Study.” Infancy 18, no. 4 (July 2013): 534–53. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-7078.2012.00135.x.
Tenenbaum EJ, Shah RJ, Sobel DM, Malle BF, Morgan JL. Increased Focus on the Mouth Among Infants in the First Year of Life: A Longitudinal Eye‐Tracking Study. Infancy. 2013 Jul;18(4):534–53.
Tenenbaum, Elena J., et al. “Increased Focus on the Mouth Among Infants in the First Year of Life: A Longitudinal Eye‐Tracking Study.” Infancy, vol. 18, no. 4, Wiley, July 2013, pp. 534–53. Crossref, doi:10.1111/j.1532-7078.2012.00135.x.
Tenenbaum EJ, Shah RJ, Sobel DM, Malle BF, Morgan JL. Increased Focus on the Mouth Among Infants in the First Year of Life: A Longitudinal Eye‐Tracking Study. Infancy. Wiley; 2013 Jul;18(4):534–553.
Journal cover image

Published In

Infancy

DOI

EISSN

1532-7078

ISSN

1525-0008

Publication Date

July 2013

Volume

18

Issue

4

Start / End Page

534 / 553

Publisher

Wiley

Related Subject Headings

  • Developmental & Child Psychology
  • 1701 Psychology