Do infants recognize the Arcimboldo images as faces? Behavioral and near-infrared spectroscopic study

Kobayashi, Megumi; Otsuka, Yumiko; Nakato, Emi; Kanazawa, Susumu; Yamaguchi, Masami K.; Kakigi, Ryusuke

doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2011.07.008

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“…This was the same region examined in our other recent NIRS studies [2-4,6-9,14,26]. When the probes were positioned, the experimenter checked to see if the fibers were touching each infant’s scalp correctly.…”

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“…The RGB content of the facial images (histogram for each channel) was equated across the five female faces using SHINE Toolbox (Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada; http://www.mapageweb.umontreal.ca/gosselif/shine/) [25]. The stimuli for the baseline period consisted of full-color photo images of the five vegetables used in our previous studies [1-4,6,8,9,26]. The sizes of the stimuli were approximately 17.5° × 21° in visual angle for the faces, and 16.8° × 16.8° for the vegetables.…”

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“…The raw data of oxy-Hb, deoxy-Hb, and total-Hb from the individual channels were digitally high-pass-filtered at 0.02 Hz to remove any signal drift [1-4,6-9,26] and low-pass-filtered at 2.0 Hz in order to remove high frequently measurement noise. Then the raw data of each channel were averaged across the trials within a subject in a time series of 0.1 s time resolutions from 2 s before the test trial onset to 10 s after the test trial offset.…”

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“…These studies have revealed infants’ brain activation patterns during the presentation of upright and inverted faces [1], facial expressions [2], frontal and profile views [3], mother’s face and unfamiliar female faces [4,5], Arcimboldo images [6], and directed and averted gaze [7]. These studies suggest that face stimuli evoke cortical activation in infants’ bilateral temporal areas.…”

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The processing of faces across non-rigid facial transformation develops at 7 month of age: a fNIRS-adaptation study

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BackgroundUsing near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), our previous neural adaptation studies found that infants’ bilateral temporal regions process facial identity (FiHN 5:153, 2011). In addition, we revealed that size-invariant processing of facial identity develops by 5 months of age (NR 23:984-988, 2012), while view-invariant processing develops around 7 months of age (FiHN 5:153, 2011). The aim in the current study was to examine whether infants’ brains process facial identity across the non-rigid transformation of facial features by using the neural adaptation paradigm. We used NIRS to compare hemodynamic changes in the bilateral temporal areas of 5- to 6-month-olds and 7- to 8-month-olds during presentations of an identical face and of different faces.ResultsWe found that (1) the oxyhemoglobin concentration around the T5 and T6 positions increased significantly during the presentation of different faces only in 7- to 8-month-olds and (2) 7- to 8-month-olds, but not 5- to 6-month-olds, showed attenuation in these channels to the presentation of the same face rather than to the presentation of different faces, regardless of non-rigid changes in facial features.ConclusionsOur results suggest that the processing of facial identity with non-rigid facial transformation develops around 7 months after birth.

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“…For example, Kobayashi et al (2012) used a preferential looking method with 5-to 8-month-old children and found that the 7-to 8-monthold children looked longer at upright Arcimboldo images compared to inverted images, suggesting that they preferred those face-like images. They then measured blood flow in the brain in 7-and 8-month-olds during viewing of inverted or upright Arcimboldo images or control images that consisted only of individual vegetables, and they found that the concentration of oxyhemoglobin increased in the left temporal area for the upright images compared to the baseline vegetable images, indicating that participants processed the Arcimboldo images holistically as faces.…”

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What’s in a face (made of foods)? Comparing children’s and monkey’s perception of faces in face-like images of food

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Infants’ recognition of their mothers’ faces in facial drawings

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This study examined the development of ability to recognize familiar face in drawings in infants aged 6-8 months. In Experiment 1, we investigated infants' recognition of their mothers' faces by testing their visual preference for their mother's face over a stranger's face under three conditions: photographs, cartoons produced by online software that simplifies and enhances the contours of facial features of line drawings, and veridical line drawings. We found that 7-and 8-month-old infants showed a significant preference for their mother's face in photographs and cartoons, but not in veridical line drawings. In contrast, 6-month-old infants preferred their mother's face only in photographs. In Experiment 2, we investigated a visual preference for an upright face over an inverted face for cartoons and veridical line drawings in 6to 8-month-old infants, finding that infants aged older than 6 months showed the inversion effect in face preference in both cartoons and veridical line drawings. Our results imply that the ability to utilize the enhanced information of a face to recognize familiar faces may develop aged around 7 months of age.

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Do infants recognize the Arcimboldo images as faces? Behavioral and near-infrared spectroscopic study

Cited by 50 publications

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The processing of faces across non-rigid facial transformation develops at 7 month of age: a fNIRS-adaptation study

The processing of faces across non-rigid facial transformation develops at 7 month of age: a fNIRS-adaptation study

What’s in a face (made of foods)? Comparing children’s and monkey’s perception of faces in face-like images of food

Infants’ recognition of their mothers’ faces in facial drawings

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