Sentence:  ... we must be cautious about inferring the same <WSD>recognitory</WSD> processes are going on in infancy as in adulthood. The fact that an infant dishabituates to a male face after seeing a series of female faces, tells us nothing about whether any of these stimuli seem familiar to the infant, or carry the conceptual meaning involved in the judgment, “Oh, that's not a woman.” 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Pertaining to recognizing (matching a current perception with a memory).