Development of the macaque face-patch system
| Autor: | Peter F. Schade, Krishna Srihasam, Margaret S. Livingstone, Justin L. Vincent, Tristram Savage, Michael J. Arcaro |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0301 basic medicine Science General Physics and Astronomy Macaque Inferotemporal cortex Article General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine biology.animal Image Processing Computer-Assisted Reaction Time medicine Animals Visual Cortex Multidisciplinary biology Extramural General Chemistry Macaca mulatta Magnetic Resonance Imaging Decreasing responsiveness 030104 developmental biology Visual cortex medicine.anatomical_structure Face (geometry) Female Functional organization Psychology Facial Recognition Neuroscience Photic Stimulation 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Nature Communications Nature Communications, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 2041-1723 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/ncomms14897 |
| Popis: | 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. Development of neural circuits for face recognition is not well studied in primates. Here the authors longitudinally track responses to faces in monkeys from about a month of age to two years and demonstrate that face-selective responses emerge in inferotemporal cortex early and gradually stabilize over time. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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