biostudies-literature00460Livingstone MSNEI NIH HHSNIBIB NIH HHSNCRR NIH HHS14897https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC5381009biostudies-literatureUnknown8Face recognition is highly proficient in humans and other social primates; it emerges in infancy, but the development of the neural mechanisms supporting this behaviour is largely unknown. We use blood-volume functional MRI to monitor longitudinally the responsiveness to faces, scrambled faces, and objects in macaque inferotemporal cortex (IT) from 1 month to 2 years of age. During this time selective responsiveness to monkey faces emerges. Some functional organization is present at 1 month; face-selective patches emerge over the first year of development, and are remarkably stable once they emerge. Face selectivity is refined by a decreasing responsiveness to non-face stimuli.Nature communicationsDevelopment of the macaque face-patch system.PMC5381009P30 EY012196P41 EB015896F32 EY024187S10 RR021110R01 EY025670Srihasam KLivingstone MSSavage TVincent JLSchade PFArcaro MJ46falseDevelopment of the macaque face-patch system.Face recognition is highly proficient in humans and other social primates; it emerges in infancy, but the development of the neural mechanisms supporting this behaviour is largely unknown. We use blood-volume functional MRI to monitor longitudinally the responsiveness to faces, scrambled faces, and objects in macaque inferotemporal cortex (IT) from 1 month to 2 years of age. During this time selective responsiveness to monkey faces emerges. Some functional organization is present at 1 month; face-selective patches emerge over the first year of development, and are remarkably stable once they emerge. Face selectivity is refined by a decreasing responsiveness to non-face stimuli.2017-01-01T00:00:00Z2017 Mar2024-11-15T18:32:57.8Z2019-03-27T02:40:24ZS-EPMC53810092836189010.1038/ncomms14897