The impact of face masks on infants' learning of faces: An eye tracking study.
The impact of face masks on infants' learning of faces: An eye tracking study.
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口罩对婴儿学习面部的影响：一项眼动追踪研究。
DOI：
10.1111/infa.12516
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2023
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Oakes,LisaM
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DeBolt,MichaelaC;Oakes,LisaM
这项预先注册的研究考察了口罩如何影响COVID-19大流行期间出生的6至9个月大婴儿（N= 58）的面部记忆。使用标准视觉配对比较（VPC）任务测试婴儿的记忆力。我们在熟悉和测试过程中交叉了面孔是否被掩蔽，产生了四种试验类型（掩蔽熟悉/掩蔽测试，非掩蔽熟悉/掩蔽测试，掩蔽熟悉/非掩蔽测试和非掩蔽熟悉/非掩蔽测试）。婴儿表现出记忆的面孔，如果在测试中的面孔是不蒙面，无论是否在熟悉的面孔被掩盖。然而，婴儿没有表现出强有力的证据的记忆时，测试面孔被掩盖，无论熟悉的条件。此外，婴儿看上方（眼睛）区域的偏见是更大的面具比非面具的面孔，虽然这种差异是无关的记忆表现。总之，尽管面具的存在似乎确实影响了婴儿对面孔的处理和记忆，但他们可以形成对面具面孔的记忆，即使在未戴面具的情况下也能识别出那些熟悉的面孔。
This preregistered study examined how face masks influenced face memory in a North American sample of 6‐ to 9‐month‐old infants (N= 58) born during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Infants' memory was tested using a standard visual paired comparison (VPC) task. We crossed whether or not the faces were masked during familiarization and test, yielding four trial types (masked‐familiarization/masked‐test, unmasked‐familiarization/masked‐test, masked‐familiarization/unmasked‐test, and unmasked‐familiarization/unmasked‐test). Infants showed memory for the faces if the faces were unmasked at test, regardless of whether or not the face was masked during familiarization. However, infants did not show robust evidence of memory when test faces were masked, regardless of the familiarization condition. In addition, infants' bias for looking at the upper (eye) region was greater for masked than unmasked faces, although this difference was unrelated to memory performance. In summary, although the presence of face masks does appear to influence infants' processing of and memory for faces, they can form memories of masked faces and recognize those familiar faces even when unmasked.