Specifications Table
| Subject area | Psychology |
| More specific subject area | Face perception, first-person perspective, visual experience, infancy |
| Type of data | Spreadsheets of data coded from infant-perspective video-recordings |
| How data was acquired | Head-mounted infant-perspective video recorded by families during the course of infants' typical days (e.g., at home, out for walks) |
| Data format | Raw |
| Experimental factors | In this observational study, data were obtained by recording via head-mounted infant-perspective video cameras the early face experience of 40 typically developing 3-month-olds (±14 days) recruited via convenience sampling of families residing in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada. Video data were cleaned to exclude portions of recordings that did not represent the infant's perspective. All faces that were present and visible within the video were coded. For each face the infant experienced, the dataset provides a classification of identity (caregiver, infant themselves, relative, or stranger), gender, and location (e.g., at home, in a car) of the face. |
| Experimental features | Families were provided with head-mounted video-cameras with which to record the world from their infant's perspective for 1 week when the infant was 3 months of age. The cameras were placed on the infant's head when the infant was awake and alert, generating an average of ∼4 hours of video per infant. Parents also described the people infants typically experienced before they began recording and, after recording, the people infants experienced during their week with the camera. This video was then coded frame-by-frame for faces. |
| Data source location | Toronto, Canada located at 43.6532° N and 79.3832° W |
| Data accessibility | Data is with this article |
| Related research article | Authors: Sugden, Nicole A., & Moulson, Margaret C. Title: These are the people in your neighbourhood: Consistency and persistence in infants' exposure to caregivers' relatives', and strangers' faces across contexts. Journal: Vision Research https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2018.09.005 |