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Children recruit distinct neural systems for implicit emotional face processing.

Nancy J Lobaugh1, Erin Gibson, Margot J Taylor

  • 1Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. nlobaugh@sten.sunnybrook.utotonto.ca

Neuroreport
|January 13, 2006
PubMed
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Young children possess distinct neural networks for processing specific emotions, even with immature behavioral responses. This study reveals early-developing brain systems for recognizing fear, disgust, and sadness in faces.

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Facial emotion recognition develops throughout childhood and adolescence.
  • Adults show emotion-specific neural activation for emotional faces.
  • It remains unknown if these specialized neural networks function in children.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether distinct neural systems are activated by specific emotions in young children.
  • To determine if the neural networks identified in adults are operational in children.

Main Methods:

  • An implicit face-processing task was administered to 10-year-old children.
  • Brain activity was measured during the task to identify recruited neural systems.

Main Results:

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  • Distinct neural systems were recruited for processing the emotions of fear, disgust, and sadness.
  • These systems included key brain regions like the amygdala, parahippocampal gyrus, insula, cingulate gyrus, fusiform gyrus, and superior temporal gyrus.
  • These regions are typically associated with emotion processing in adults.

Conclusions:

  • Emotion-specific neural processing networks are present in young children.
  • These neural networks function despite immature behavioral responses observed in explicit emotion recognition tasks.