Topic: fearful faces

The developmental origins of fear and its variations in individuals are poorly understood. Evidence suggests an attentional bias towards fearful faces emerges around 5-7 months of age. Our prior findings in 8-month-old infants indicate that neonatal left amygdala volumes were positively associated with attention disengagement probability from fearful faces. To our knowledge, this is the first study exploring the underlying white matter tracts. We used neonatal diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data and eye tracking using an overlap paradigm with faces and non-faces as a behavioural measure collec

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

The medial temporal lobe (MTL) is important for mnemonic processes, navigation and social cognition. At the basis of all these cognitive processes lies the integration of a multitude of stimuli and their classification into conceptual groups. Neurons in human MTL indeed show concept-specific activity profiles in that they fire specifically for pictures presenting concepts of animals, landscapes, faces, concept relations and their grade of novelty. How such representations are organized during moving scenes, where different concepts are presented simultaneously, has so far received little atten