(left) Infant fusiform face area (left) has a greater responses to faces (purple) than to bodies (pink), objects (yellow), and landscapes (green). (middle) Infant extrastriate body area (EBA) has a greater response to bodies than to faces, objects, and landscapes. (right) Infant parahippocampal place area (PPA) has a greater response to landscapes than to faces, bodies, and objects.
Selective Responses to Faces, Scenes, and Bodies in Human Infant Cortex.
Peer reviewed publication, Current Biology
Summary
Portions of the ventral visual pathway in adults selectively respond to faces, scenes, and bodies. Here, Kosakowski et al. show that 2- to 9-month-old human infants have face-, scene- and body-selective responses in FFA, PPA, and EBA, respectively, constraining theories of cortical development.
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