Why do babies look at faces?

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Venerdì 5 dicembre 2025, ore 14:00

Sala Lauree del Dipartimento di Psicologia, Edificio U6/AgorĂ 

Speaker: Mikko Peltola, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Finland

Infants display a very early-emerging interest in looking at faces. An attentional bias towards faces increases throughout the first year and includes distinctive features, such as a robust tendency to hold attention on fearful faces. Individual differences in attentional biases to faces are also meaningfully associated with later social developmental outcomes. In this talk, I will outline theoretical models of face processing development and discuss them in light of more recent research on infants’ face-looking in natural environments. Finally, I present an integrative model which could guide future research in this field.

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Per informazioni:

Prof. Ermanno Quadrelli e Prof Hermann Bulf

ermanno.quadrelli@unimib.it, 

hermann.bulf@unimib.it

 

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