Perceptual narrowing towards adult faces is a cross‐cultural phenomenon in infancy: a behavioral and near‐infrared spectroscopy study with Japanese infants

Kobayashi, Megumi; Cassia, Viola Macchi; Kanazawa, Susumu; Yamaguchi, Masami K.; Kakigi, Ryusuke

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“…Indeed, neuroimaging studies in adults indicate that attention to facial expressions elicits greater activation in the right superior temporal sulcus (rSTS; Narumoto, Okada, Sadato, Fukui, & Yonekura, ). Most crucially, right lateralization of frontotemporal brain responses to faces has been observed also in infants using Near Infrared Spectroscopy (i.e., NIRS; Carlsson, Lagercrantz, Olson, Printz, & Bartocci, ; Kobayashi, Macchi Cassia, Kanazawa, Yamaguchi, & Kakigi, ). Our findings add to this earlier evidence showing that right‐lateralization of neural responses to facial expressions emerges early in the first year of life (Nakato, Otsuka, Kanazawa, Yamaguchi, & Kakigi, ; Nelson & de Haan, ).…”

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Emotion in motion: Facial dynamics affect infants' neural processing of emotions

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Developmental Psychobiology

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Research investigating the early development of emotional processing has focused mainly on infants' perception of static facial emotional expressions, likely restricting the amount and type of information available to infants. In particular, the question of whether dynamic information in emotional facial expressions modulates infants' neural responses has been rarely investigated. The present study aimed to fill this gap by recording 7‐month‐olds' event‐related potentials to static (Study 1) and dynamic (Study 2) happy, angry, and neutral faces. In Study 1, happy faces evoked a faster right‐lateralized negative central (Nc) component compared to angry faces. In Study 2, both happy and angry faces elicited a larger right‐lateralized Nc compared to neutral faces. Irrespective of stimulus dynamicity, a larger P400 to angry faces was associated with higher scores on the Negative Affect temperamental dimension. Overall, results suggest that 7‐month‐olds are sensitive to facial dynamics, which might play a role in shaping the neural processing of facial emotional expressions. Results also suggest that the amount of attentional resources infants allocate to angry expressions is associated to their temperamental traits. These findings represent a promising avenue for future studies exploring the neurobiological processes involved in perceiving emotional expressions using dynamic stimuli.

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Emotion in motion: Facial dynamics affect infants' neural processing of emotions

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“…Eight‐year‐olds typically make more errors than adults in discriminating human faces (Mondloch et al, ), monkey faces (Mondloch et al, ), and houses (Robbins et al, ), but still achieve higher accuracy for human faces than for the other two categories. Thus, both 8‐year‐olds (Kobayashi, Cassia, Kanazawa, Yamaguchi, & Kakigi, ; Pascalis, Haan, & Nelson, ) and adult ELBW survivors show evidence of perceptual narrowing in the absence of normal, adult‐like performance.…”

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Visual configural processing in adults born at extremely low birth weight

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Being born at extremely low birth weight (ELBW; ≤1,000 g) is associated with enduring visual impairments. We tested for long‐term, higher order visual processing problems in the oldest known prospectively followed cohort of ELBW survivors. Configural processing (spacing among features of an object) was examined in 62 adults born at ELBW (Mage = 31.9 years) and 82 adults born at normal birth weight (NBW; ≥2,500 g: Mage = 32.5 years). Pairs of human faces, monkey faces, or houses were presented in a delayed match‐to‐sample task, where non‐matching stimuli differed only in the spacing of their features. Discrimination accuracy for each stimulus type was compared between birth weight groups, adjusting for neurosensory impairment, visual acuity, binocular fusion ability, IQ, and sex. Both groups were better able to discriminate human faces than monkey faces (p < .001). However, the ELBW group discriminated between human faces (p < .001), between monkey faces (p < .001), and to some degree, between houses (p < .06), more poorly than NBW control participants, suggesting a general deficit in perceptual processing. Human face discrimination was related to performance IQ (PIQ) across groups, but especially among ELBW survivors. Coding (a PIQ subtest) also predicted human face discrimination in ELBW survivors, consistent with previously reported links between visuo‐perceptive difficulties and regional slowing of cortical activity in individuals born preterm. Correlations with Coding suggested ELBW survivors may have used a feature‐matching approach to processing human faces. Future studies could examine brain‐based anatomical and functional evidence for altered face processing, as well as the social and memory consequences of face‐processing deficits in ELBW survivors.

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“…Furthermore, there appears to be an increased sensitivity toward adult faces in infancy . Right temporal areas are seen to be activated in infants in response to adult faces (and not infant faces) …”

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“…26 Right temporal areas are seen to be activated in infants in response to adult faces (and not infant faces). 27 The caretaker's face is one of the most frequently occurring visual stimuli during infancy and thus most likely carries early social and emotional valence. Right frontotemporal cortex activation has been observed in 6-9-month-old infants in response to their mothers' faces as compared to unknown faces.…”

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Emotional Processing in the First 2 Years of Life: A Review of Near‐Infrared Spectroscopy Studies

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Shekhar

Nissilä

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Journal of Neuroimaging

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Emotional stimuli processing during childhood helps us to detect salient cues in our environment and prepares us for our social life. In early childhood, the emotional valences of auditory and visual input are salient and relevant cues of social aspects of the environment, and it is of special interest to understand how exactly the processing of emotional stimuli develops. Near‐infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is a noninvasive neuroimaging tool that has proven valuable in studying emotional processing in children. After conducting a systematic search of PubMed, Web of Science, and Embase databases, we examined 50 NIRS studies performed to study emotional stimuli processing in children in the first 2 years of age. We found that the majority of these studies are done in infants and the most commonly used stimuli are visual and auditory. Many of the reviewed studies suggest the involvement of bilateral temporal areas in emotional processing of visual and auditory stimuli. It is unclear which neural activation patterns reflect maturation and at what age the emotional encoding reaches those typically seen in adults. Our review provides an overview of the database on emotional processing in children up to 2 years of age. Furthermore, it demonstrates the need to include the less‐studied age range of 1 to 2 years, and suggests the use of combined audio‐visual stimuli and longitudinal studies for future research on emotional processing in children. Thus, NIRS might be a vital tool to study the associations between the early pattern of neural responses and socioemotional development later in life.

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Perceptual narrowing towards adult faces is a cross‐cultural phenomenon in infancy: a behavioral and near‐infrared spectroscopy study with Japanese infants

Cited by 22 publications

References 71 publications

Emotion in motion: Facial dynamics affect infants' neural processing of emotions

Emotion in motion: Facial dynamics affect infants' neural processing of emotions

Visual configural processing in adults born at extremely low birth weight

Emotional Processing in the First 2 Years of Life: A Review of Near‐Infrared Spectroscopy Studies

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