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Jane E Joseph1, Ann D Gathers, Xun Liu

  • 1Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Kentucky, 308 MRISC, 800 Rose Street, Lexington, KY 40536-0098, USA. jjoseph@uky.edu

Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
|January 25, 2007
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Neural substrates for face processing change during development. Inverted faces, unlike animals, are processed by object recognition regions in adults, suggesting featural processing.

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Background:

  • Face processing is a fundamental human ability.
  • Developmental changes in neural substrates for face recognition are not fully understood.
  • The impact of stimulus inversion on face perception varies across age groups.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate developmental changes in the brain's neural substrates for face processing.
  • To examine how stimulus inversion affects face and animal perception in children and adults.
  • To identify specific brain regions involved in processing inverted faces.

Main Methods:

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to study brain activity.
  • Participants (children and adults) performed a perceptual-matching task.

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  • Stimuli included upright and inverted faces and animals.

    • Main Results:

    • Behaviorally, inversion significantly disrupted face processing more than animal processing in adults and older children.
    • The left middle occipital gyrus showed a stronger face than animal inversion effect in adults.
    • A superior region of the left middle occipital gyrus exhibited a greater face inversion effect in older compared to younger children.
    • Adults processing inverted faces recruited visual regions typically associated with object recognition.

    Conclusions:

    • Neural processing of faces undergoes developmental changes.
    • Inverted face recognition in adults may rely on featural processing mechanisms, engaging object recognition brain regions.
    • These findings shed light on the neural basis of face perception development and the processing of non-canonical facial stimuli.