Face-sensitive cortical processing in early infancy

Hanife Halit; Gergely Csibra; Ágnes Volein; Mark H. Johnson

doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00321.x

Face-sensitive cortical processing in early infancy

Hanife Halit, Gergely Csibra^*, Ágnes Volein, Mark H. Johnson

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Birkbeck University of London

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Background: Debates about the developmental origins of adult face processing could be directly addressed if a clear infant neural marker could be identified. Previous research with infants remains open to criticism regarding the control stimuli employed. Methods: We recorded ERPs from adults and 3-month-old infants while they watched faces and matched visual noise stimuli. Results: We observed similar amplitude enhancement for faces in the infant N290 and adult N170. In contrast, the infant P400 showed only a latency effect, making it unlikely to be the main precursor of the adult N170. Conclusions: We conclude that there is some degree of specificity of cortical processing of faces as early as 3 months of age.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1228-1234
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
Volume	45
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00321.x
State	Published - Oct 2004
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Event-related potentials
Face perception
Infants
N170

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Face-sensitive cortical processing in early infancy

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