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Posted byBrian Hopkins May 22, 2019

A term coined by John Morton and Mark Johnson in their two-process modularity theory of infant face recognition to reflect the infant’s acquisition of face knowledge by virtue of experience in viewing faces.  Presumed to be mediated cortically and appearing at about 2 months of age.

See Configural processing, CONSPEC, Face processing, Face recognition, Modularity

Posted byBrian HopkinsMay 22, 2019Posted inUncategorizedTags: glossary

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