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Differential age-related changes in N170 responses to upright faces, inverted faces, and eyes in Japanese children

The main objectives of this study were to investigate the development of face perception in Japanese children, focusing on the changes in face processing strategies (holistic and/or configural vs. feature-based) that occur during childhood. To achieve this, we analyzed the face-related N170 componen...

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Autores principales: Miki, Kensaku, Honda, Yukiko, Takeshima, Yasuyuki, Watanabe, Shoko, Kakigi, Ryusuke
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4451338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26082700
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00263
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author Miki, Kensaku
Honda, Yukiko
Takeshima, Yasuyuki
Watanabe, Shoko
Kakigi, Ryusuke
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Honda, Yukiko
Takeshima, Yasuyuki
Watanabe, Shoko
Kakigi, Ryusuke
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description The main objectives of this study were to investigate the development of face perception in Japanese children, focusing on the changes in face processing strategies (holistic and/or configural vs. feature-based) that occur during childhood. To achieve this, we analyzed the face-related N170 component, evoked by upright face, inverted face, and eyes stimuli in 82 Japanese children aged between 8- and 13-years-old. During the experiment, the children were asked to perform a target detection task in which they were told to press a button when they saw images of faces or kettles with mustaches, glasses, and fake noses; i.e., an implicit face perception task. The N170 signals observed after the presentation of the upright face stimuli were longer in duration and/or had at least two peaks in the 8–11-year-old children, whereas those seen in the 12–13-year-old children were sharp and only had a single peak. N170 latency was significantly longer after the presentation of the eyes stimuli than after the presentation of the upright face stimuli in the 10- and 12-year-old children. In addition, significant differences in N170 latency were observed among all three stimulus types in the 13-year-old children. N170 amplitude was significantly greater after the presentation of the eyes stimuli than after the presentation of the upright face stimuli in the 8–10- and 12-year-old children. The results of the present study indicate that the upright face stimuli were processed using holistic and/or configural processing by the 13-year-old children.
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spelling pubmed-44513382015-06-16 Differential age-related changes in N170 responses to upright faces, inverted faces, and eyes in Japanese children Miki, Kensaku Honda, Yukiko Takeshima, Yasuyuki Watanabe, Shoko Kakigi, Ryusuke Front Hum Neurosci Neuroscience The main objectives of this study were to investigate the development of face perception in Japanese children, focusing on the changes in face processing strategies (holistic and/or configural vs. feature-based) that occur during childhood. To achieve this, we analyzed the face-related N170 component, evoked by upright face, inverted face, and eyes stimuli in 82 Japanese children aged between 8- and 13-years-old. During the experiment, the children were asked to perform a target detection task in which they were told to press a button when they saw images of faces or kettles with mustaches, glasses, and fake noses; i.e., an implicit face perception task. The N170 signals observed after the presentation of the upright face stimuli were longer in duration and/or had at least two peaks in the 8–11-year-old children, whereas those seen in the 12–13-year-old children were sharp and only had a single peak. N170 latency was significantly longer after the presentation of the eyes stimuli than after the presentation of the upright face stimuli in the 10- and 12-year-old children. In addition, significant differences in N170 latency were observed among all three stimulus types in the 13-year-old children. N170 amplitude was significantly greater after the presentation of the eyes stimuli than after the presentation of the upright face stimuli in the 8–10- and 12-year-old children. The results of the present study indicate that the upright face stimuli were processed using holistic and/or configural processing by the 13-year-old children. Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4451338/ /pubmed/26082700 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00263 Text en Copyright © 2015 Miki, Honda, Takeshima, Watanabe and Kakigi. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution and reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Neuroscience
Miki, Kensaku
Honda, Yukiko
Takeshima, Yasuyuki
Watanabe, Shoko
Kakigi, Ryusuke
Differential age-related changes in N170 responses to upright faces, inverted faces, and eyes in Japanese children
title Differential age-related changes in N170 responses to upright faces, inverted faces, and eyes in Japanese children
title_full Differential age-related changes in N170 responses to upright faces, inverted faces, and eyes in Japanese children
title_fullStr Differential age-related changes in N170 responses to upright faces, inverted faces, and eyes in Japanese children
title_full_unstemmed Differential age-related changes in N170 responses to upright faces, inverted faces, and eyes in Japanese children
title_short Differential age-related changes in N170 responses to upright faces, inverted faces, and eyes in Japanese children
title_sort differential age-related changes in n170 responses to upright faces, inverted faces, and eyes in japanese children
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4451338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26082700
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00263
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