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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

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Babies get it right.

Hillary Hadley¹, Lisa Scott¹

¹Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, United States.

|June 3, 2015

Summary

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Infants utilize their right brain hemisphere to differentiate human faces from inanimate objects. This finding sheds light on early facial recognition development in the infant brain.

Keywords:

face recognition human infants natural images neuroscience right hemisphere visual categorization

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Developmental Psychology
Cognitive Science

Background:

The ability to recognize faces is crucial for social development.
Understanding the neural basis of face perception in infants is key to identifying developmental trajectories.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the specific brain regions involved in face perception in infants.
To determine if infants process human faces differently from other objects.

Main Methods:

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to monitor brain activity in infants.
Infants were presented with images of human faces and common objects.

Main Results:

A specific region in the right hemisphere of the infant brain showed heightened activity when viewing human faces.
This right-sided region exhibited less activation when infants observed objects.

Conclusions:

Infants employ a specialized neural mechanism in the right brain for distinguishing human faces.
This suggests an early-developing bias for face processing in the infant brain.