The role of the mean diffusivity of the amygdala in the perception of emotional faces in 8-month-old infants
Niloofar Hashempour, Jetro J. Tuulari, Harri Merisaari, John D. Lewis, Linnea Karlsson, Hasse Karlsson, Eeva-Leena Kataja · FENS Forum 2024
Attentional preference for social stimuli, such as different facial expressions, is an important part of the development of humans' behavioral and emotional health. Infants demonstrate a predilection for faces and tend to sustain visual attention over non-social stimuli immediately after birth and throughout infancy. Infants begin to identify facial expressions and emotions around the age of 6 to 8 months. Studies have shown that the amygdala plays an important role in infants' attentional bias towards faces and fear processing. The goal of this study was to examine how infants’ amygdala mean
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