Contrast reversal of the eyes impairs infants' face processing: A near-infrared spectroscopic study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 2556-2561

  Ichikawa, Hiroko ^a,b   Otsuka, Yumiko ^c,f   Kanazawa, So ^d   Yamaguchi, Masami K ^a   Kakigi, Ryusuke ^e  

^a CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d JAPAN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contrast polarity; Eyes; Infants; Near infrared spectroscopy; Negation; NIRS

Indexed keywords

OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FACE PROCESSING; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROIMAGING; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

CONTRAST POLARITY; EYES; INFANTS; NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEGATION; NIRS;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EYE DISEASES; FACE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; OXYHEMOGLOBINS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84886265681     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.08.020     Document Type: Article

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