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Experience is Instrumental in Tuning a Link Between Language and Cognition: Evidence from 6- to 7- Month-Old Infants' Object Categorization

Experience is Instrumental in Tuning a Link Between Language and Cognition: Evidence from 6- to 7- Month-Old Infants' Object Categorization

Published on: April 19, 2017

Visual category-selectivity for faces, places and objects emerges along different developmental trajectories.

K Suzanne Scherf¹, Marlene Behrmann, Kate Humphreys

¹Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. scherf@pitt.edu

Developmental Science

|June 8, 2007

Summary

Children show adult-like visual cortex organization for objects and places, but not faces. Adolescents develop adult-like face selectivity, indicating developmental specialization in the visual brain.

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Developmental Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience

Background:

The ventral visual cortex exhibits specialized regions for processing faces, objects, and places in adults.
The developmental emergence of this category-selective organization remains largely uncharacterized.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the developmental trajectories of face-, object-, and place-selective activation in the ventral visual cortex.
To understand how category selectivity emerges during childhood and adolescence.

Main Methods:

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to measure brain activation.
Compared developmental patterns of category selectivity across children, adolescents, and adults.

Main Results:

Children showed adult-like organization for object and place stimuli but lacked consistent face-selective activation in classical face regions.
Reduced face selectivity, smaller activation volumes, and variable activation loci characterized face processing in children.
Adolescents exhibited adult-like face-selective activation, albeit with greater right-lateralization.

Conclusions:

Category-specific functional organization in the visual cortex emerges gradually during development.
Specialization arises from the interplay between experience-dependent learning and brain maturation.
Significant age-related differences exist in the development of visual cortex specialization.