Journal article
Infants Rely More on Gaze Cues From Own‐Race Than Other‐Race Adults for Learning Under Uncertainty
Abstract
Differential experience leads infants to have perceptual processing advantages for own- over other-race faces, but whether this experience has downstream consequences is unknown. Three experiments examined whether 7-month-olds (range = 5.9-8.5 months; N = 96) use gaze from own- versus other-race adults to anticipate events. When gaze predicted an event's occurrence with 100% reliability, 7-month-olds followed both adults equally; with 25% …
Authors
Xiao NG; Wu R; Quinn PC; Liu S; Tummeltshammer KS; Kirkham NZ; Ge L; Pascalis O; Lee K
Journal
Child Development, Vol. 89, No. 3, pp. e229–e244
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
May 2018
DOI
10.1111/cdev.12798
ISSN
0009-3920