Minor structural abnormalities in the infant face disrupt neural processing: a unique window into early caregiving responses
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Infant faces elicit early, specific activity in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), a key cortical region for reward and affective processing. A test of the causal relationship between infant facial configuration and OFC activity is provided by naturally occurring disruptions to the face structure. One such disruption is cleft lip, a small change to one facial feature, shown to disrupt parenting. Using magnetoencephalography, we investigated neural responses to infant faces with cleft lip compared with typical infant and adult faces. We found activity in the right OFC at 140 ms in response to typical infant faces but diminished activity to infant faces with cleft lip or adult faces. Activity in the right fusiform face area was of similar magnitude for typical adult and infant faces but was significantly lower for infant faces with cleft lip. This is the first evidence that a minor change to the infant face can disrupt neural activity potentially implicated in caregiving.
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Activation in OFC and fusiform face area is disrupted when an alteration to the structure of an infant face (e.g., cleft lip) is perceived (Parsons et al., 2013).
“Interestingly, activation in OFC and fusiform face area is disrupted when an alteration to the structure of an infant face (i.e. cleft lip) is perceived (Parsons et al., 2013).”
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- Authors
- Parsons, C. E., Young, K. S., Mohseni, H., Woolrich, M. W., Thomsen, K. R., Joensson, M., Murray, L., Goodacre, T., Stein, A., & Kringelbach, M. L.
- Affiliations
- Aarhus University (DK)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Stellenbosch University (ZA)
- John Radcliffe Hospital (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Kringelbach, Morten L.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Social Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2013-07
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 268-274
- ISSN
- 1747-0919 (ISSN-L)
- 1747-0927
- OpenAlex
- W2040491738
- Cited by
- 48
- References
- 34
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- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 3
- FWCI
- 4.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Social Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Keywords
- infant face perception, cleft lip, orbitofrontal cortex, fusiform face area, facial configuration, caregiving, parenting, magnetoencephalography
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Brain, Brain Mapping, Cleft Lip, Face, Female, Humans, Infant, Male, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Magnetoencephalography, Caregivers
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