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Recognition of the Mother's Face by Six-Month-Old Infants: A Neurobehavioral Study

de Haan, Michelle, Nelson, Charles A·1997·Child Development

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Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from 6-month-olds as each watched pictures of the mother's face and a stranger's face. The ERPs differed for the 2 faces, but the pattern of neural activity elicited depended on whether the mother and stranger looked different (Experiment I, n= 22) or alike (Experiment 3, n= 22). In contrast, when different 6-month-olds were each shown 1 of these 44 pairs, of face their ERPs did not differ between the 2 faces (Experiment 2, n= 22, and Experiment4, n= 22). In a visual preference test of recognition, infants showed no evidence of recognizing the mother's face (Experiment 5, n= 32). Together, these results suggest that infants are able to recognize their mothers' faces but (1) the neural processes accompanying recognition depend on the difficulty with which mother can be discriminated from stranger and (2) under the conditions investigated in this study, FRPs are a more sensitive measure of recognition than is looking time.

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Authors
de Haan, M., & Nelson, C. A.
Affiliations
  • The University of Minnesota
  • University of Minnesota (US)
Corresponding author
Nelson, Charles A
Venue
Child Development
Published
1997-04-01
Volume
68
Issue
2
Pages
187-210
ISSN
  • 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
  • 1467-8624
OpenAlex
W2099402565
Cited by
353
References
38
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FWCI
2.49
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Child Development (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Cognitive Neuroscience Society
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS-32979, R01NS032979)
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD07151, T32HD007151)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Face recognition and analysis
Keywords
face recognition (cognition), infant face perception, event-related potentials, face discrimination, visual preference, looking time, 6-month-old infants
MeSH terms
Arousal, Attention, Brain Mapping, Cerebral Cortex, Psychology, Child, Discrimination Learning, Electroencephalography, Evoked Potentials, Visual, Female, Humans, Infant, Male, Mother-Child Relations, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Reaction Time, Mental Recall

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