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- Title
SUBCORTICAL FACE PROCESSING.
- Authors
Johnson, Mark H.
- Abstract
Recent functional imaging, neuropsychological and electrophysiological studies on adults have provided evidence for a fast, low-spatial-frequency, subcortical face-detection pathway that modulates the responses of certain cortical areas to faces and other social stimuli. These findings shed light on an older literature on the face-detection abilities of newborn infants, and the hypothesis that these newborn looking preferences are generated by a subcortical route. Converging lines of evidence indicate that the subcortical face route provides a developmental foundation for what later becomes the adult cortical 'social brain' network, and that disturbances to this pathway might contribute to certain developmental disorders.
- Subjects
NEWBORN infants; DEVELOPMENTAL disabilities; BRAIN diseases; NEUROLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL biology
- Publication
Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2005, Vol 6, Issue 10, p766
- ISSN
1471-003X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nrn1766