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On The Development of Face Processing| old_uid | 3600 |
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| title | On The Development of Face Processing |
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| start_date | 2007/12/05 |
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| schedule | 11h |
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| online | no |
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| details | invité par Sylvia Wirth |
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| summary | According to Carey (1992), face processing involves an innate system that guides attention to faces and with experience develops into the adult expert system. Despite independent neural mechanisms, the processing of faces and speech appears to follow a common developmental trajectory. For example, infants must be exposed to faces and speech in order for development to proceed normally. Similarly, the perceptual window through which faces and speech are processed during the first year of life appears to narrow with experience; thus, before approximately 9-12 months infants can process non-native speech sounds and non-native faces on par with their ability to process native speech sounds and native faces. However, after this age infants begin to lose these abilities. Finally, a recent demonstration has revealed that the perceptual window through which speech is processed can be kept open if infants are exposed to non-native languages before the end of the first year (Kuhl et al., 2003). A similar phenomenon with faces has been reported specifically we demonstrate that exposure to monkey faces between 6 and 9 months of age facilitates their discrimination, an ability that is otherwise lost around 9 months of age (Pascalis et al., 2002; Pascalis et al., 2005). Face processing continues however to undergo changes for many years before developing into the adult system. |
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| responsibles | Béranger |
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