Personal familiarity infl uences the processing of upright and inverted faces in infants
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Westerlund, Alissa
Vogel-Farley, Vanessa
Riggins, Tracy
Kuefner, Dana
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Balas, Benjamin, Charles A. Nelson, Alissa Westerlund, Vanessa Vogel-Farley, Tracy Riggins, and Dana Kuefner. 2010. Personal familiarity infl uences the processing of upright and inverted faces in infants. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Vol 4 (February 2010) Art. 1.Abstract
Infant face processing becomes more selective during the fi rst year of life as a function of varying experience with distinct face categories defined by species, race, and age. Given that any individual face belongs to many such categories (e.g. A young Caucasian man’s face) we asked how the neural selectivity for one aspect of facial appearance was affected by category membership along another dimension of variability. 6-month-old infants were shown upright and inverted pictures of either their own mother or a stranger while event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded. We found that the amplitude of the P400 (a face-sensitive ERP component) was only sensitive to the orientation of the mother’s face, suggesting that “tuning” of the neural response to faces is realized jointly across multiple dimensions of face appearance.Terms of Use
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