Functional development of the brain's face-processing system.
Wiley Interdiscip Rev Cogn Sci
; 8(1-2)2017 Jan.
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| ID: mdl-27906518
In the first 20 years of life, the human brain undergoes tremendous growth in size, weight, and synaptic connectedness. Over the same time period, a person achieves remarkable transformations in perception, thought, and behavior. One important area of development is face processing ability, or the ability to quickly and accurately extract extensive information about a person's identity, emotional state, attractiveness, intention, and numerous other types of information that are crucial to everyday social interaction and communication. Associating particular brain changes with specific behavioral and intellectual developments has historically been a serious challenge for researchers. Fortunately, modern neuroimaging is dramatically advancing our ability to make associations between morphological and behavioral developments. In this article, we demonstrate how neuroimaging has revolutionized our understanding of the development of face processing ability to show that this essential perceptual and cognitive skill matures consistently yet slowly over the first two decades of life. In this manner, face processing is a model system of many areas of complex cognitive development. WIREs Cogn Sci 2017, 8:e1423. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1423 For further resources related to this article, please visit the WIREs website.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
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Encéfalo
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Mapeo Encefálico
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Reconocimiento Facial
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
Límite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Child
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Humans
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En
Revista:
Wiley Interdiscip Rev Cogn Sci
Año:
2017
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Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos
Pais de publicación:
Estados Unidos