Abstract— Face perception remains one of the most intensively researched areas in psychology and allied disciplines, and there has been much debate regarding the early origins and experiential determinants of face processing. This article reviews studies, the majority of which have appeared in the past decade, that discuss possible mechanisms underlying face perception at birth and document the prominent role of experience in shaping infants’ face‐processing abilities. In the first months of life, infants develop a preference for female and own‐race faces and become better able to recognize and categorize own‐race and own‐species faces. This perceptual narrowing and shaping of the “face space” forms a foundation for later face expertise in childhood and adulthood and testifies to the remarkable plasticity of the developing visual system.

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婴儿早期面部空间的塑造：成为本地面部处理器。


摘要：面部感知仍然是心理学和相关学科中研究最深入的领域之一，并且关于面部处理的早期起源和经验决定因素存在很多争论。本文回顾了大多数在过去十年中出现的研究，这些研究讨论了出生时面部感知的可能机制，并记录了经验在塑造婴儿面部处理能力方面的重要作用。在生命的最初几个月，婴儿会对女性和本族面孔产生偏爱，并且能够更好地识别和分类本族和本种面孔。这种“面部空间”的感知缩小和塑造为后来的童年和成年时期的面部专业知识奠定了基础，并证明了正在发育的视觉系统的显着可塑性。