Homogenization of face neural representation during development.

ABSTRACT: Extensive studies have demonstrated that face processing ability develops gradually during development until adolescence. However, the underlying mechanism is unclear. One hypothesis is that children and adults represent faces in qualitatively different fashions with different group templates. An alternative hypothesis emphasizes the development as a quantitative change with a decrease of variation in representations. To test these hypotheses, we used between-participant correlation to measure activation pattern similarity both within and between late-childhood children and adults. We found that activation patterns for faces in the fusiform face area and occipital face area were less similar within the children group than within the adults group, indicating children had a greater variation

SUBMITTER: Tian X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8637318 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature