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  • Developmental psychology
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  • Visual perception

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  • Adults rely on head orientation to infer attention.
  • Understanding how this ability develops in children is crucial for developmental studies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate developmental changes in sensitivity to head orientation cues during childhood.
  • To identify the underlying neural mechanisms responsible for these developmental changes.

Main Methods:

  • Adaptation paradigm using frontal and side views of faces.
  • Behavioral judgments of head orientation by 8-, 10-, 12-year-olds, and adults.
  • Computational modeling to interpret results.

Main Results:

  • No age differences in head orientation judgments after frontal face adaptation.
  • 8- and 10-year-olds showed larger aftereffects and lower sensitivity compared to adults after side-view adaptation.
  • 12-year-olds' performance was similar to adults.

Conclusions:

  • Neural mechanisms for head orientation sensitivity mature significantly during childhood.
  • Developmental refinement involves changes in neural tuning bandwidth, internal noise, and inhibition.
  • These findings offer novel insights into the maturation of social cue processing.