• Briefly review the literature on young infants' face perception and recognition. Face perception occurs when someone is able to analyze and interpret the face, primarily the human face. In this particular case, the perception concerns infants. Recognition is defined in the same way. This is when something has already been seen or heard. Face Perception in Infancy (Article 7) by Mondloch, Lewis, Budreau, Maurer, Dannemiller, Stephens, and Gathercoal does an excellent job of explaining young infants' face perception and recognition. In this article, the researchers decided to conduct an experiment on newborns, 6-week-olds and 12-week-olds. They used a standardized method, called the Teller Acuity card procedure. This procedure was used when an observer did not know what was presented on each trial and was trying to see if the infants preferred one of the stimuli, or cards, over another. There were five cards in total. Three were experimental cards and two were control or test cards. For the experimental cards, a card consisted of a config and its inversion. A configuration is the outline of a head shape and has three black dots inside the shape forming a set of eyes and mouth. Inversion occurs when the “configuration” is reversed. The second map consisted of a spectrum of a face and its amplitude spectrum. The amplitude spectrum was the opposite. It was a blurry spectrum and you couldn't see a face. The third card consisted of a contrasting positive and negative face. One face had a positive contrast and the other had a negative contrast. For the control cards, these cards were used to test the validity of the card procedure and it was tested at each age. Both cards consisted of large black and white maps...... middle of paper...... This shows that infants aged 3 to 5 months are able to follow a gaze within their field or field of vision . Regarding joint attention and its developmental stage, Gredebäck, Fikke and Melinder conducted their study between 2 and 8 months of age. As for the results, they found that 2-month-old infants were too young to follow a gaze, but 4-month-old infants were able to do so. When it came to infants aged 6 to 8 months, the study showed that they were able to consistently engage in joint attention. In conclusion, the eyes are important factors when it comes to one's attention and cognition. It is another form of communication and its own language contributes to the cognitive development of young infants to adults. Through eye contact, joint attention, and gaze direction, they all help teach an infant nonverbal communication and understanding the emotions and perceptions of others..