Attentional differences in audiovisual face perception between full‐ and preterm very low birthweight toddlers

Abstract

Advanced management of high-risk pregnancies and progress in neonatal intensive care has improved survival rates for children born very prematurely (VP; <32 weeks) or with very low birthweight (VLBW; <1500 g). 1 Research shows that VP and VLBW infants are at increased risk of neurodevelopmental morbidities. 2,3 For example, preterm children with VLBW aged 8-11 showing no major cognitive or language-related impairments have difficulty using nonverbal cues from facial and body movements as well as situational cues in interpreting others' emotions in naturalistic social interactions. 4 There is therefore a need to grasp specific patterns of social,

Intersensory redundancy impedes face recognition in 12-month-old infants

“…Twelve-month-olds were selected because they are expected to be attracted to the amodal properties of the faces presented synchronously ( Lewkowicz and Hansen-Tift, 2012 ; Pons et al, 2015 ), while also being able to process the unimodal aspects of the stimuli ( Bahrick and Lickliter, 2004 ; Bahrick et al, 2006 ). While most existing literature on face processing and recognition is based on static, unimodal stimuli, there has been a recent push to increase the representation of dynamic stimuli (e.g., Ujiie et al, 2020 ; Hillairet de Boisferon et al, 2021 ; Nakagawa et al, 2023 ). In this study we used dynamic, audiovisual stimuli to investigate the role of IR in face processing.…”