PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Fusiform Face Area, Face Perception, Joint Attention
20 Mar 2013
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Play that involves the use of actions or objects to represent real life or imagined actions, objects, or characters. To engage on pretend play, one must understand mental states (e. g. : the child understands that the mom is pretending that she"s using the banana as telephone) Sensorimotor play: child"s play involving object manipulation as a means for the practice and mastery of actions. Fusiform face area: the area of the brain that is dedicated to face perception. Inversion effect: the disruption in face processing that is observed when face is inverted (i. e. , if pictures are inverted, people are slower to choose) Babies would prefer looking at faces than rumbled face parts. Perceptual narrowing: a developmental process in which perceptual mechanisms become more specialized such that infants lose the ability to discriminate between categories that are irrelevant, human 6 months olds were good discriminating both monkey faces and human faces.
