Motion's privilege in recognizing facial expressions following treatment for blindness.

ABSTRACT: In his 1872 monograph, Charles Darwin posited that "… the habit of expressing our feelings by certain movements, though now rendered innate, had been in some manner gradually acquired."¹ Nearly 150 years later, researchers are still teasing apart innate versus experience-dependent contributions to expression recognition. Indeed, studies have shown that face detection is surprisingly resilient to early visual deprivation,^2,3,4,5 pointing to plasticity that extends beyond dogmatic critical periods.^6,7,8 However, it remains unclear whether such resilience extends to downstream processing, such as the ability to recognize facial expressions. The extent

SUBMITTER: Gilad-Gutnick S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11457836 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature