Perceptual specialization and configural face processing in infancy.

Highlights: [•] Configural spacing information contributes to face processing expertise in adults. [•] 5- and 9-month-olds discriminated spacing changes in human male and monkey faces. [•] However, infants failed to discriminate matched changes in house stimuli. [•] Thus, infants exhibited specialization on primate face stimuli. [•] Perceptual narrowing in face processing was not evident in this study. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]