Table 2.
Means (M) and standard deviations (SD) for the proportion of time looking to the novel face, out of the total time looking to both novel and familiar faces, in test trials. Cumulative looking at three time points is shown: first 1 second, first 2 seconds, and first 3 seconds.
| Subjects | Face Stimulus
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Proportion of Time Looking to Novel
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0–2 seconds
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0–3 seconds
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| Species | Age | M | SD | p | M | SD | p | M | SD | p | |
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| Newborns | Human | Adult | 0.56 | 0.25 | 0.202 | 0.53 | 0.19 | 0.440 | 0.50 | 0.20 | 0.928 |
| Old Infant | 0.46 | 0.23 | 0.435 | 0.47 | 0.18 | 0.443 | 0.49 | 0.17 | 0.716 | ||
| Young Infant | 0.55 | 0.28 | 0.357 | 0.53 | 0.20 | 0.522 | 0.54 | 0.17 | 0.264 | ||
| Monkey | Adult | 0.59 | 0.24 | 0.087 | 0.57 | 0.23 | 0.123 | 0.54 | 0.21 | 0.343 | |
| Old Infant | 0.50 | 0.27 | 0.985 | 0.54 | 0.21 | 0.406 | 0.56 | 0.15 | 0.081 | ||
| Young Infant | 0.47 | 0.25 | 0.536 | 0.46 | 0.23 | 0.380 | 0.47 | 0.17 | 0.375 | ||
| 6- to 7-month-olds | Human | Adult | 0.63 | 0.20 | < 0.001* | 0.61 | 0.18 | 0.001* | 0.55 | 0.15 | 0.055 |
| Old Infant | 0.57 | 0.22 | 0.079 | 0.58 | 0.18 | 0.016 | 0.60 | 0.20 | 0.011 | ||
| Young Infant | 0.50 | 0.23 | 0.979 | 0.56 | 0.18 | 0.085 | 0.54 | 0.17 | 0.177 | ||
| Monkey | Adult | 0.58 | 0.22 | 0.054 | 0.61 | 0.20 | 0.003* | 0.61 | 0.20 | 0.005 | |
| Old Infant | 0.55 | 0.19 | 0.112 | 0.60 | 0.14 | < 0.001* | 0.58 | 0.16 | 0.006 | ||
| Young Infant | 0.52 | 0.17 | 0.531 | 0.55 | 0.18 | 0.144 | 0.56 | 0.21 | 0.152 | ||
Significant differences with Bonferroni corrections indicated by:
ps ≤ .003, one-sample t tests (chance .50).