Pubertal development shapes perception of complex facial expressions

Motta‐Mena, Natalie V.; Scherf, K. Suzanne

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“…The behavioral (Fry and Hale, 2000) and neural (Scherf et al, 2006) basis of working memory, which could influence the amount information children process as they observe and interpret the natural world, also undergo change. Children’s abilities to process social and emotional information are also changing in impressive ways: the perception of facial expressions improves with age (Motta-Mena and Scherf, 2017, Osterhaus et al, 2016) and the neurophysiology supporting these processes continues to develop at least into early adolescence (Batty and Taylor, 2006). Similarly, higher-order false belief and social understanding (Osterhaus et al, 2016, Devine and Hughes, 2013) undergo age-related improvements as does the functional specialization of networks associated with theory of mind and understanding of pain (Richardson 2018; Richardson et al, 2018).…”

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“…As children transition into adolescence, neural organization becomes increasingly adult-like (Luna et al, 2010, Vetter et al, 2014, Moor et al, 2012) and many of the previously described changes in behavior begin to asymptote, including age-related improvements in response inhibition and working memory (see (Luna et al, 2004)). Also, young adolescents (age 12) in later stages of pubertal development, begin to exhibit adult levels of sensitivity to detect emotional expressions (Motta-Mena and Scherf, 2017) and to engage in social reasoning across multiple contexts, like pretense, threat, and irony (see (Vetter et al, 2013)). This convergence in both behavior and neural organization may reflect increased consistency in how adolescents process and interpret information.…”

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“…Gonadarche, which stimulates the release of sex hormones (i.e., estrogens and testosterone), targets the development of the primary sex organs and begins a bit later (typically age 9-10 years; (Susman et al, 2010)). Animal studies indicate large-scale re-organization in structural and functional neural networks that is coordinated with behavior and associated with pubertal development (see (Schulz and Sisk, 2006)) and there is an emerging body of literature implicating the influence of pubertal development on human visuoperceptual behavior (see (Motta-Mena and Scherf, 2017, Picci and Scherf, 2016)), and on functional (Forbes et al, 2011, Spielberg et al, 2014) and structural (Herting and Sowell, 2017) brain development.…”

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Age-Related Changes in Neural Networks Supporting Complex Visual and Social Processing in Adolescence

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Despite our differences, there is much about the natural visual world that almost all observers apparently perceive in common. This coherence across observers is evidenced by the finding that, across adults, approximately 30% of the brain is activated in a consistent fashion in response to viewing naturalistic input. The critical question addressed here is how does this consistency emerge and is this pattern of coherence apparent from early in development or does it evolve with time and/or experience? We focused our investigation at a key developmental juncture that might bridge the child and adult patterns, namely, the period of adolescence. We acquired fMRI BOLD data evoked by an 11-minute age-appropriate movie in younger (age 9-14 years) and older adolescents (age 15-19 years) and in adults. Using an intra-subject correlation approach, we characterized the consistency of the neural response within-individual (across two separate runs of the movie), and then, using an inter-subject correlation approach, evaluated the similarity of the response profile within individuals of the same age group and between age-groups. In primary sensory areas (A1+, V1) the response profiles in both groups of adolescents were highly similar to those of the adults, suggesting that these areas are functionally mature at earlier stages of the development. In contrast, some other regions exhibited higher within-age correlations in the adolescent groups than in the adult group. Last, we evaluated the brain responses across the whole cortex and identified the different patterns of maturation as reflected in different inter-subject correlations across the age groups. Together, these findings provide a fine-grained characterization of functional neural development. The approach offers the potential for careful tracking of the development of widespread cortical networks that support the emerging stereotypical responses to naturalistic visual and social stimuli and has important implications for future studies of cortical development.

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Age-Related Changes in Neural Networks Supporting Complex Visual and Social Processing in Adolescence

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“…Adolescence in particular reflects a time when young people undergo significant emotional and motivational changes which appear to heavily influence aspects of social functioning and perception (Kilford, Garrett, & Blakemore, 2016). A striking example of this comes from studies documenting changes in adolescents' processing of facial information (Motta-Mena & Scherf, 2016;Picci & Scherf, 2016;Scherf, Behrmann, & Dahl, 2012). Pre-pubescent children are generally more dependent on caregivers than older adolescent youth and, thus, preferentially attend to and process facial features that likely identify potential caregivers -i.e., adult and female facial characteristics, (Picci & Scherf, 2016).…”

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Conceptual development and change precede adults’ judgments about powerful appearance

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2020

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Objective: Adults’ mental representations of the physical appearance of people that are “strong” and people that are “in charge” are remarkably similar. Some have explained this feature of adults’ thinking by positing innate mental representations. However, specific details about the nature and structure of these representations and an appropriate empirical foundation for these claims has been lacking. In this review, my objective is to provide a high-level summary of recent research exploring infants’ and young children’s intuitions about the physical manifestations of power. I argue that the social responses and judgments of young participants are more informative about the existence and nature of putatively innate mental content.Methods: Narrative review of developmental studies. Results: Preverbal infants exhibit a remarkably early sensitivity to the relative power of two agents. By the time that people enter childhood, they exhibit increasingly adult-like intuitions about powerful appearance. Additionally, there are significant revisions in the appearance-to-power correspondences that people detect between childhood and adulthood.Conclusions: These complex developmental patterns are inconsistent with the idea that adults’ intuitions about the physical manifestations of power are straightforward outputs of an innate psychology. Rather, despite an early-emerging sensitivity to appearance-based cues to power, significant conceptual development and change precede adults’ judgments about powerful appearance.

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“…Há estudos com análise prosódica e também de imagens (Motta-Mena & Scherf, 2017;Andrade, et. al, 2013 (Pasquali, 1998;2010), (Anexo B).…”

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Construção de instrumento de percepção de expressão facial e comportamentos de corte

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6Eu agradeço,  Ao meu companheiro Paulo, o apoio e convivência que contribuíram com meu desenvolvimento intelectual e científico, paciência e acolhimento nas situações de angústia e desorganização. A minha mãe Rita e irmãos Emerson e Patrícia, pela valorização do conhecimento e do trabalho, e por extensão a toda minha família. Ao Prof. Dr. Francisco Baptista Assumpção Jr., pelo acolhimento e oportunidade, cuja convivência e orientação em muito tem contribuído ao meu desenvolvimento cientifico e intelectual, e a seus alunos pela colaboração na minha pesquisa. A Profa. Dra. Patrícia Ferraz Gouveia, pela valorização e orientação, cuja presença e convivência contribuiu muito em meu desenvolvimento pessoal e profissional.  Ao Assistente Social Waldir de Lana e a Terapeuta Ocupacional JéssicaBalbino, cuja crença e apoio forma fundamentais em algumas escolhas. RESUMOA experiência sexual humana teve momentos distintos em seu desenvolvimento biopsicossocial e histórico, tendo sido submetida a normativas sociais, favorecendo evolutivamente a vida comunitária e social. O comportamento de corte tem um componente biológico/evolutivo e os comportamentos não verbais são os de maior importância num primeiro momento dessa aproximação para seleção sexual. Objetivamos construir um instrumento clínico de faces, identificando imagens de face masculina e feminina, com expressões percebidas como sexualmente receptivas, de modo a contribuir com o conhecimento na área e fornecer subsídio para o trabalho clínico com queixas relacionadas a funções cognitivas e sexualidade. Iniciamos com 107 fotografias realizadas de um modelo do sexo masculino e uma modelo do sexo feminino. Para testar Validade de Conteúdo, utilizamos da avaliação de um grupo de 12 juízes (psicólogos clínicos; heterossexuais; 06 homens e 06 mulheres), que apresentaram concordância de justa a moderada segundo Índice do Coeficiente Kappa de Cohen, uma medida de concordância, quanto à receptividade sexual nas imagens. Em pré-teste com 67 voluntários (26 homens e 41 mulheres; heterossexuais; 20 a 52 anos, M=26,01; ± DP 8,29), universitários da cidade de São Paulo, encontramos 17 imagens femininas e 16 imagens masculinas, indicadas como receptivas sexualmente, por frequência maior que 70% de concordância em escala de 7 pontos que vão de Discordo Totalmente a Concordo Totalmente. As demais imagens foram avaliadas qualitativamente para compor o instrumento final, sendo excluídas imagens com mais de 70% de frequência em Discordância de Receptividade Sexual e menos de 10% de Concordância. Foram selecionadas 50 imagens (25 femininas e 25 masculinas) para avaliação por grupo de estudo. Em 16 aplicações grupais, em diferentes instituições, obtivemos 289 homens (54,8%, 18 a 63 anos, DP ± 25,49) e 238 mulheres (45,2%, 18 a 65 anos, DP ± 28,92). A análise de critério não apresentou diferenças na percepção dos observadores em relação a faixa etária, estado civil e escolaridade. Houve diferença na percepção entre os sexos, sendo mais significativa para os itens de imagem masculina, ...

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Pubertal development shapes perception of complex facial expressions

Cited by 39 publications

References 34 publications

Age-Related Changes in Neural Networks Supporting Complex Visual and Social Processing in Adolescence

Age-Related Changes in Neural Networks Supporting Complex Visual and Social Processing in Adolescence

Conceptual development and change precede adults’ judgments about powerful appearance

Construção de instrumento de percepção de expressão facial e comportamentos de corte

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