Presentation Year

2023

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You will spend more time looking at faces than any other type of object in your lifetime. Because faces are such an important social signal, humans have developed a perceptual expertise for faces. Decades of research on the mechanisms of face processing have demonstrated we more heavily on configural processing strategies when viewing faces due to this expertise. However, this work has been done using almost exclusively adult facial stimuli. The current study uses a well-established configural disruption known as the Thatcher Effect to investigate the use of configural processing for infant faces. We find evidence that infant face processing may be less reliant on configural information.

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Alyna-Adnan-Psychology-1420.pdf (578.85 KB)

Primary Contact: First Name

Adnan

Primary Contact: Last Name

Alyna

Primary Contact: Email

aa788@humboldt.edu

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Undergraduate Student

Primary Contact: Phone Number

7078263679

Primary Contact: Academic Departments

Psychology

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1420

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