Face pareidolia occurs when random or ambiguous inanimate objects are perceived as
faces. While real faces automatically receive prioritized attention compared with nonface …

Background Prenatal maternal anxiety is a known influence on offspring development.
General anxiety and pregnancy-related anxiety (a distinct type of anxiety encompassing …

Biased attention toward affective cues often cooccurs with the emergence and maintenance
of internalizing disorders. However, few studies have assessed whether affect‐biased …

In childhood, higher levels of temperamental fear—an early‐emerging proclivity to distress
in the face of novelty—are associated with lower social responsivity and greater social …

Developing attention skills allow children to parse their complex world by orienting to a
subset of especially salient or meaningful inputs. Infants and children are biased to orient to …

Recent studies have revealed the influence of higher-level cognitive systems in modulating
perceptual processing (top-down perceptual modulation) in infancy. However, more …

Perceptual narrowing is a domain-general process in which infants move from a broad
sensitivity to a wide range of stimuli to developing expertise within often experienced native …

Infants sometimes differentially attend to faces of different races, but how this tendency
develops across infancy and how it may vary for infants growing up with different exposure …

Research has established that frequency of exposure to own-and other-race faces shapes
the development of face processing biases characterized by enhanced attention to and …

Infants rely on developing attention skills to identify relevant stimuli in their environments.
Although caregivers are socially rewarding and a critical source of information, they are also …