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For the past few years, Mark Johnson and I have been exploring early infant preferences for looking at faces and face-like stimuli (Morton and Johnson, 1991). At the time we started this work, the dominant experimental methodology was the infant control procedure. Maurer (1985) considered this technique to be more sensitive than the preference techniques used by other workers. Earlier, she had found that two-month olds looked significantly longer at a schematic face than control stimuli but failed to demonstrate any such preference with one-month old infants.
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Morton, J. (1993). Mechanisms in Infant Face Processing. In: de Boysson-Bardies, B., de Schonen, S., Jusczyk, P., McNeilage, P., Morton, J. (eds) Developmental Neurocognition: Speech and Face Processing in the First Year of Life. NATO ASI Series, vol 69. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8234-6_8
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