Skip to content

Lancaster Glossary of Child Development

CONSPEC

Posted byBrian Hopkins May 22, 2019

A term coined by Morton and Johnson, and the other part of their modularity theory, to reflect an innate bias or disposition of infants to orient to face-like stimuli in the first two months of life.  Presumed to be mediated by the superior colliculus.

See CONLERN, Face processing, Face recognition, Innate (1), Innate (2), Superior colliculus

Posted byBrian HopkinsMay 22, 2019Posted inUncategorizedTags: glossary

Post navigation

Previous Post Previous post:
Conservation
Next Post Next post:
Conspecific
Lancaster Glossary of Child Development, Proudly powered by WordPress.