The development of Mooney face perception in 6- to 11-month-old infants

IF 2 2区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI:10.1016/j.jecp.2025.106199

Nanako Yamanaka , Yumiko Otsuka , Masaharu Kato , Nobu Shirai

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Abstract

Mooney faces are two-tone facial images with degraded individual features (e.g., eyes and mouth) and retain only shadows and highlights. Previous research has reported that even young infants can detect faces from Mooney face images despite the degraded features. In Experiment 1, we tested the upright preference for Mooney face images with the features degraded at four levels, from Level 1 (slightly degraded) to Level 4 (extremely degraded). The results indicated that infants showed a significant visual preference for upright images over inverted images under the Level 1 (slightly degraded) and Level 2 (moderately degraded) conditions. In addition, in Experiment 2 we confirmed that infants showed an upright face preference for the original non-degraded face images. The results of the two experiments suggest that although infants aged 6 to 11 months consistently showed an upright face preference even for Mooney face images with relatively modest degradedness, their ability to detect face figures from Mooney face figures was still immature

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6 ~ 11个月婴儿穆尼脸知觉的发展

穆尼脸是一种双色调的面部图像，单个特征（如眼睛和嘴巴）退化，只保留阴影和高光。先前的研究报告称，即使是年幼的婴儿也能从穆尼人脸图像中识别出人脸，尽管这些人脸的特征有所退化。在实验1中，我们测试了从1级（轻微退化）到4级（极度退化）四个级别的Mooney人脸图像的直立偏好。结果表明，在1级（轻度退化）和2级（中度退化）条件下，婴儿对直立图像的视觉偏好明显高于倒置图像。此外，在实验2中，我们证实了婴儿对原始的未降级的面部图像表现出直立的面部偏好。这两个实验的结果表明，尽管6 - 11个月大的婴儿始终表现出直立的面孔偏好，即使是对相对轻微退化的穆尼人脸图像，他们从穆尼人脸图像中识别人脸的能力仍然不成熟

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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Multiple-

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190

期刊介绍： The Journal of Experimental Child Psychology is an excellent source of information concerning all aspects of the development of children. It includes empirical psychological research on cognitive, social/emotional, and physical development. In addition, the journal periodically publishes Special Topic issues.