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Development of the macaque face-patch system

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  • Margaret S. Livingstone

    (Harvard Medical School)

  • Justin L. Vincent

    (Harvard Medical School)

  • Michael J. Arcaro

    (Harvard Medical School)

  • Krishna Srihasam

    (Harvard Medical School)

  • Peter F. Schade

    (Harvard Medical School)

  • Tristram Savage

    (Harvard Medical School
    Present address: Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA)

Abstract

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.

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  • Margaret S. Livingstone & Justin L. Vincent & Michael J. Arcaro & Krishna Srihasam & Peter F. Schade & Tristram Savage, 2017. "Development of the macaque face-patch system," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 8(1), pages 1-12, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:8:y:2017:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms14897
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14897
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