| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
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| Research Abstract |
To understand the cognitive function of infants who do not communicate with us by language, it would be important to know where and how they look at while watching stimuli. Here we investigated the development of face perception of infants aged between 4.5 to 14.5 months by the distribution of looking and the scan pattern. It revealed that the distribution and the scan pattern changed from whole face to some distinctive features, indicating the expertise in face perception. Our results demonstrate the development of face perception in quantitative manner and support the effectiveness of our new eye-tracking method that could be applied to many infant studies.
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