Developmental neuroimaging of the human ventral visual cortex
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Here, we review recent results that investigate the development of the human ventral stream from childhood, through adolescence and into adulthood. Converging evidence suggests a differential developmental trajectory across ventral stream regions, in which face-selective regions show a particularly long developmental time course, taking more than a decade to become adult-like. We discuss the implications of these recent findings, how they relate to age-dependent improvements in recognition memory performance and propose possible neural mechanisms that might underlie this development. These results have important implications regarding the role of experience in shaping the ventral stream and the nature of the underlying representations.
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The formation of cortical representations of objects and concepts in the human brain spans across childhood into adolescence.
“In the human brain, the formation of cortical representations of objects and concepts spans across childhood into adolescence (e.g., see [81-83]).”
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The Introduction reports that face- and place-selective cortical regions continue to develop from childhood through adolescence toward adulthood. It does not establish the same trajectory for object representations: it reports no age-related size difference in the object-selective LOC. The passages also do not address conceptual representations. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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- Authors
- Grill-Spector, K., Golarai, G., & Gabrieli, J.
- Affiliations
- Stanford University (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- ORCID
- Gabrieli, John
- Venue
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2008-04
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 152-162
- ISSN
- 1364-6613 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3657557
- OpenAlex
- W2107531711
- Cited by
- 147
- References
- 101
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 0.87
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5r01mh080344-02)
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01-MH-080344, 1R01MH080344)
- National Eye Institute (R21EY017741)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Keywords
- ventral stream, face-selective regions, face recognition (cognition), face memory, developmental trajectories, adolescence, childhood, neuronal maturation, experience-dependent development, visual cortex development
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Brain Mapping, Child, Child Development, Child, Preschool, Dominance, Cerebral, Face, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Neuronal Plasticity, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Mental Recall, Visual Cortex, Visual Pathways, Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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