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Children recruit distinct neural systems for implicit emotional face processing
- Source :
- NeuroReport, NeuroReport, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2006, 17 (2), pp.215-9
- Publication Year :
- 2006
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Abstract
- The ability to properly distinguish facial emotions has a protracted development, not maturing until well into adolescence. Emotional faces activate emotion-specific neural networks in adults; whether these networks are operational in children is not known. Using an implicit face-processing task in 10-year-old children, we determined that the emotions of fear, disgust and sadness recruited distinct neural systems. These systems included a number of regions typically associated with processing emotions in adults, namely the amygdala and parahippocampal gyrus, insula and cingulate gyrus, as well as the fusiform and superior temporal gyri. Thus, in spite of immature behavioral responses to emotional faces in explicit tasks, neural networks for emotion-specific processing are present in young children.
- Subjects :
- Male
MESH: Facial Expression
Emotions
Functional Laterality
Developmental psychology
MESH: Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Gyrus
MESH: Child
Neural Pathways
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
Child
Evoked Potentials
MESH: Brain Mapping
media_common
Brain Mapping
medicine.diagnostic_test
General Neuroscience
Brain
Cognition
MESH: Comparative Study
MESH: Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Sadness
Facial Expression
MESH: Evoked Potentials
medicine.anatomical_structure
Pattern Recognition, Visual
[SDV.NEU]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC]
Female
Psychology
Parahippocampal gyrus
MESH: Oxygen
psychological phenomena and processes
media_common.quotation_subject
MESH: Pattern Recognition, Visual
Amygdala
behavioral disciplines and activities
MESH: Laterality
MESH: Brain
medicine
Reaction Time
Humans
[SDV.NEU] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC]
MESH: Emotions
MESH: Humans
MESH: Neural Pathways
MESH: Reacti
Disgust
MESH: Male
Oxygen
nervous system
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Insula
MESH: Female
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09594965
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Neuroreport
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....68d85fe9ccfddd61c2f57311f16827c2