Here, a Japanese research team led by Dr. Miki Kensuke and Prof Ryusuke Kakigi, in the National Institute for Physiological Sciences, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, investigated the development of
face perception in Japanese children, by using an electroencephalogram (EEG).
Dr. Miki says, «This was the first study to investigate the development
of face perception in a large number of Japanese children.
People who
study face perception have been arguing that when we meet new people, all we are learning about their faces are so - called static features that don't change, like the shape and size of their face and skin color.
One experiment
involved face perception, where participants looked at different computer - generated faces on a screen and were asked who they would choose to be their financial adviser and who they would consider to most likely win a weightlifting champion.
The study was carried out by Abertay graduates Esther James and Shauny Jenkins and used a measurement scale common in
face perception research, which calculates the first - impressions of the participant group as a whole, working out an average verdict.
The interview focused in large part on the upstate economy, which both Cuomo and Mahoney agreed is recovering, but
faces a perception problem, especially when it comes to taxes.
«It's possible this human -
like face perception capability is more widespread in the animal kingdom than we previously thought.»
Studies have shown, for example, that intranasal oxytocin administration may increase emotion recognition and brain activity
during face perception.
The economic stimulus package that President Obama signed in February includes $ 11 billion to build a bigger and more efficient grid, but a recent study by Oracle Corp. suggests that privately funded smart - grid
projects face perception challenges.
In the case of children, some researchers have also studied the development of
face perception using the EEG, and showed that the adult's pattern of N170 did not reach by 14 years of age.
An emerging body of research
on face perception suggests that getting to the top of the corporate ladder may depend, at least in part, on the structure of a person's face... More
The observation of rapid sequential dependencies in
face perception raises an interesting question about the way we judge the attractiveness of unfamiliar people who post profile pictures on online dating websites.
Indeed, Olivola and Todorov [89] showed that judges overweigh aspects of appearance and would be more accurate in judging personality
if face perception was ignored.
Thus, the second lesson this beautiful experiment teaches involves the potential pitfalls and perils of homing in on a brain region or a nerve cell and inferring that because it correlates with seeing faces or with recalling bad experiences or with making decisions, it must therefore be involved in
face perception, in memory or in decision making.
Only stimulation of electrodes underneath the right fusiform gyrus — never its left counterpart — induced distortions in
face perception.
Two just published studies of the brain's visual networks, including the FFA, enlarge what we know about the physical basis of
face perception.
But even those of us with normal face - recognition skills are subject to many illusions and biases in
face perception.
We are expecting that this result can be applied for understanding of
the face perception of the children with the autism spectrum disorder.»
The team reported that
the face perception in Japanese children almost matured by the age of 13 years, earlier than that in Western children.
There have been many studies of
face perception in human using non-invasive neuroimaging and electrophysiological methods, but studies of face perception in children were quite limited.
The team has concluded that
the face perception of Japanese children almost matured by the age of 13 years.
Cognitive neuroscientist Juan R. Vidal of the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center in France applauds the authors» use of multiple methods and says the study is the first to prove that the fusiform gyrus plays a causal role in
face perception.
Each participant completed
a face perception task where they judged sixteen face - pairs, indicating how much better a leader they felt their chosen face to be compared to the other face.
Dr. Nelson is frequently cited in print and TV media on topics as diverse as early brain development, the development of
face perception, memory development, the effects of early psychosocial deprivation on development, and autism.