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NEUROREPORT
Volume 15, Issue 10, Pages 1549-1553Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000133299.84901.86
Keywords
development; face recognition; fMRI; ventral processing stream
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- NICHD NIH HHS [R01 HD 042451, R01 HD042451] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [F32 MH 067461, R01 MH 063817, F31 MH067461, R01 MH063817] Funding Source: Medline
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Information on normal functional organization and development of the ventral processing stream in 5- to 11-year-old children is minimal. The present fMRI study identified neural correlates for face and object processing in children aged 5-8 and 9-11 years, with data from a similar adult study used for comparison. All age groups showed face-preferential activation in the ventral processing stream, but adults and children aged 9-11 years showed face-preferential loci near the classically defined fusiform face area, whereas children aged 5-8 years showed this activation in the posterior ventral processing stream. In addition, the degree of category-selectivity in other brain regions increased with age. Collectively, these developmental changes may reflect fine-tuning in visual recognition processes based on learning and experience.
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