Selective Responses to Faces, Scenes, and Bodies in the Ventral Visual Pathway of Infants

Kosakowski, Heather L.; Cohen, Michael A.; Takahashi, Atsushi; keil, boris; Kanwisher, Nancy; Saxe, Rebecca

doi:10.31234/osf.io/7hqcu

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“…Our results add to a growing body of neuroimaging evidence for relatively early preferential STC and MPFC responses to faces ( Deen et al, 2017 ; Kosakowski et al, 2021 ). These findings are perhaps surprising in light of the protracted structural and functional developmental trajectory of these regions ( Carter and Pelphrey, 2006 ; Giedd et al, 1999 ; Gogtay et al, 2004 ; Kilford et al, 2016 ; Mills et al, 2013 ; Somerville et al, 2013 ).…”

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confidence: 66%

“…Complementary data from tools with higher spatial resolution, like fNIRS and fMRI, enables localizing the source of early responses to faces to spatially discrete brain regions. Consistent with prior EEG evidence, fNIRS and fMRI research finds early preferential responses to faces, relative to non-social stimuli, in STC and MPFC in infants as young as 3 months of age ( Blasi et al, 2007 ; Csibra et al, 2004 ; Deen et al, 2017 ; Grossmann et al, 2008 ; Kosakowski et al, 2021 ; Lloyd‐Fox et al, 2009 ; Nakato et al, 2009 ; Otsuka et al, 2007 ).…”

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Preferential responses to faces in superior temporal and medial prefrontal cortex in three-year-old children

Richardson

Taylor

Powell

et al. 2021

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

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Perceiving faces and understanding emotions are key components of human social cognition. Prior research with adults and infants suggests that these social cognitive functions are supported by superior temporal cortex (STC) and medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC). We used functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to characterize functional responses in these cortical regions to faces in early childhood. Three-year-old children (n = 88, M(SD) = 3.15(.16) years) passively viewed faces that varied in emotional content and valence (happy, angry, fearful, neutral) and, for fearful and angry faces, intensity (100%, 40%), while undergoing fNIRS. Bilateral STC and MPFC showed greater oxygenated hemoglobin concentration values to all faces relative to objects. MPFC additionally responded preferentially to happy faces relative to neutral faces. We did not detect preferential responses to angry or fearful faces, or overall differences in response magnitude by emotional valence (100% happy vs. fearful and angry) or intensity (100% vs. 40% fearful and angry). In exploratory analyses, preferential responses to faces in MPFC were not robustly correlated with performance on tasks of early social cognition. These results link and extend adult and infant research on functional responses to faces in STC and MPFC and contribute to the characterization of the neural correlates of early social cognition.

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Preferential responses to faces in superior temporal and medial prefrontal cortex in three-year-old children

Richardson

Taylor

Powell

et al. 2021

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

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“…Using electroencephalography, rightward asymmetric responses to face-like stimuli have been observed in the occipitotemporal region in neonates (63) and infants (64). Using MRI, it has also been shown that resting-state functional connectivity underlying the cortical face processing is present at birth (60), and by 4-6 months, infants demonstrated face-selective responses in the fusiformface area (65,66). These findings suggest that the rightward asymmetry of the visual network in neonates may underlie the right hemispheric specialisation of face processing seen in infancy and later life.…”

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Structural and functional asymmetry of the neonatal cerebral cortex

Williams

Fitzgibbon

Božek

et al. 2021

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Features of brain asymmetry have been implicated in a broad range of cognitive processes; however, their origins are still poorly understood. Using a new left-right symmetric, spatiotemporal cortical surface atlas, we investigated cortical asymmetries in 442 healthy newborn infants soon after birth, using structural and functional magnetic resonance images from the Developing Human Connectome Project. We identified previously unrecognised structural and functional asymmetries in auditory, visual and sensorimotor cortices, which closely resemble known asymmetries in adults. These findings show that cortical asymmetries are largely determined prenatally and suggest that they may constrain the development of lateralised functions in later life. In adults, deviations in brain asymmetry have been implicated in a broad range of developmental and psychiatric disorders, some of which have been associated with abnormal perinatal neurodevelopment. To test the hypothesis that normal cortical asymmetry is disrupted in the perinatal period by severe environmental stress, we compared cortical asymmetries between the same group of term neonates and 103 preterm neonates imaged at term-equivalent age. No significant differences were seen between these two cohorts, showing that the development of cortical asymmetries proceeds largely unaffected by preterm birth.

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“…There is compelling evidence that face recognition relies on brain circuits specialized over evolutionary time for this function, which are shaped by experience-expectant plasticity in early development (Moulson et al 2009;Todorov, 2017, Ch. 12,13;Cabral et al, 2020;Kosakowski et al, 2021). Yet face recognition abilities vary widely in neurologically intact individuals, who range from those with very poor abilities to "super-recognizers" (Sacks, 2011).…”

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Musicality and gene-culture coevolution: ten concepts to guide productive exploration

Patel¹

2021

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A growing number of researchers across the sciences and humanities theorize that human musicality arose via an interplay of cultural invention and biological evolution, or “gene-culture coevolution.” This chapter offers ten concepts to help guide productive cross-disciplinary discussions on this topic. Such interactions across traditional disciplinary boundaries are needed to propel deep explorations of human musicality. These explorations are important for the study of human origins because musicality may prove to be a model system for exploring cognitive gene-culture coevolution, a process increasingly thought to be central to the evolution of the human mind.

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Selective Responses to Faces, Scenes, and Bodies in the Ventral Visual Pathway of Infants

Cited by 18 publications

References 40 publications

Preferential responses to faces in superior temporal and medial prefrontal cortex in three-year-old children

Preferential responses to faces in superior temporal and medial prefrontal cortex in three-year-old children

Structural and functional asymmetry of the neonatal cerebral cortex

Musicality and gene-culture coevolution: ten concepts to guide productive exploration

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