Eric Eisenstein stepped carefully down the stairs, pausing beneath two infant faces, mouths open, eyes blank.
They measured the men's level of interest in children by asking whether they preferred pictures of adult or infant faces when both were presented at the same time.
Among the tinsel and lace paper, at the back were still other kinds of pigs: plush pigs, black velvet pigs, spotted cotton pigs, metal and wooden mechanical pigs, all with frolicsome curled tails and appealing infant faces.
As expected, facial mimicry was increased in the OT group, but effects were strongest for angry infant faces.
We hypothesized that ERP responses to faces would be larger in the OT condition and that the effects of OT on ERP responses would be more pronounced for infant faces.
The amplitudes of the face-sensitive N170 ERP component were larger in the OT condition to infant and adult faces, but no clear support was found for the hypothesis that the responses to infant faces would be more susceptible to OT effects than the responses to adult faces.
Own-race infant faces attract attention, but other-race infant faces do not.
Overall, infant faces were rated as more arousing than adult faces, F1,14 = 985.27, P<0.001.
We ask whether this other-race effect impacts on attentional attraction to infant faces.
A number of studies have used fMRI to examine parental responses to infant faces [13].
Attentional capture by infant faces was shown in a spatial probe detection task; probe detection at locations primed by infant faces was facilitated relative to locations primed by adult faces.
