2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Development of neural basis of face and body processing
Project/Area Number |
16H07424
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Research Field |
Experimental psychology
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Research Institution | Institute for Developmental Research, Aichi Human Service Center (2017) National Institute for Physiological Sciences (2016) |
Principal Investigator |
Kobayashi Megumi 愛知県心身障害者コロニー発達障害研究所, 機能発達学部, 研究員 (70781227)
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Project Period (FY) |
2016-08-26 – 2018-03-31
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Keywords | 人物認知 / 顔 / 身体 / 脳活動 / 発達 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In natural-viewing environments, we sometimes have to recognize people at a distance; for example, when someone approaches. Human adults achieve successful person recognition by an ability to generalize recognition memory of face and body of a person across the different natural-viewing environments. However, no study have investigated this ability and neural basis of body and face processing in early infancy. The current study examined 1) infants' recognition of a person approaching from a distance, and 2) brain activity while infants observe faces and bodies. The results of a series of experiments suggest that 1) generalization ability of face recognition across different natural-viewing environments develops at around 7 months of age, 2) sensitivity to face and body in infants' bilateral temporal areas changes across development.
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Free Research Field |
実験心理学、発達心理学
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