We’re excited to announce a recent publication by Grace Wallsinger, a PhD student in the BCD Lab. This paper, published in Developmental Psychobiology, explores how 6- and 9-month-old infants respond to faces from familiar and unfamiliar race groups.
In our study, we found that 6-month-olds showed stronger brain responses to faces from race groups they were more familiar with, indicating heightened attention to these faces. Both 6- and 9-month-old infants were able to tell individual faces apart, regardless of familiarity. By 9 months, we also saw that babies’ brains were starting to process individual faces more like adults do, with brain activity shifting more to the right side of the brain. These results highlight how infants’ everyday experiences shape how their brains learn to recognize and respond to faces.👶
Access the full paper here: Experience With Face Groups Impacts Face Processing, but Not Face Differentiation in 6‐ and 9‐Month‐Old Infants
