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M J Taylor1, G E Edmonds, G McCarthy

  • 1Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, CNRS-UMR 5549, Faculté de Médecine de Rangueil, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.

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|June 21, 2001
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Children develop face and eye processing abilities early. While configural face processing matures slowly into adulthood, an "eye detector" matures rapidly by age 11, showing early sensitivity to social cues.

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Adults efficiently process faces and eyes, crucial social stimuli.
  • The developmental trajectory of face and eye processing expertise remains unclear.
  • Understanding this development is key to understanding social cognition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate developmental changes in neural processing of faces and eyes.
  • To examine the maturation of configural face processing versus feature-based eye processing.
  • To identify the age at which specialized neural responses emerge.

Main Methods:

  • Used event-related potentials (ERPs), specifically the N170 component.
  • Studied 128 participants aged 4–15 years and adults.

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  • Presented upright faces, inverted faces, and eyes as stimuli.

    • Main Results:

    • The N170 response to faces was present in young children, similar to adults.
    • N170 development for upright faces continued into adulthood, indicating slow configural processing maturation.
    • N170 to eyes showed shorter latency and larger amplitude than faces in children, maturing by age 11.

    Conclusions:

    • Configural face processing is a slow-maturing ability.
    • An "eye detector" system is present early in development and matures rapidly.
    • Neural systems for processing key social stimuli like eyes develop at different rates.