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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Cogn Dev. 2015 Jul 9;17(2):285–299. doi: 10.1080/15248372.2015.1048863

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
Proportion of Time Looking to Novel
0–1 seconds
0–2 seconds
0–3 seconds
Species Age M SD p M SD p M SD p




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).