Abstract
The visual perception of faces and body parts provides a wealth of information that is used to understand others’ behaviors. It is well known that distributed networks of brain regions underlie the perception of faces and body parts. Do such networks develop even in the absence of visual experience? I introduce here our recent studies suggesting that the cortical networks for the recognition of faces and body parts can partially develop even in the absence of early visual experience.
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The author declares no competing financial interests. This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) (number 25871059) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, “Face perception and recognition” (number 23119727) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan.
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Kitada, R. (2016). The Supramodal Brain Network for the Recognition of Faces and Bodies: Is Visual Experience Necessary for the Development of High-Order Visual Cortices?. In: Wang, R., Pan, X. (eds) Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics (V). Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0207-6_43
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