PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Facial Recognition System, Contact Hypothesis, Superior Temporal Sulcus
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We are face specialists (better than anything eles can identify,, recognize and evaluate faces/facial expressions) Try to link brain development, neural network maturity and behavioural changes beahvaiour and neural substrates in adults. The face processing system: 1) face preference. Prefer to look at faces vs/ objects. Prefer attractive faces (even infants: 2) face categorization. Emotion: 3) face recognition is it familiar (do i know this person?) Children not very good at recognition beyond primary caregivers. Prospagnosia: neurological disorder wher one cannot recognize faces. Baby able to make conections b/w sights and sounds. During lab tests experimenters assume that babies look longer at something b/c its novel or they are familiar with it or like it. Face processing in adults relational information: adults discriminate faces by looking at how facial features relate to each other in size, locatio, distance from each other infants cannot do this: face preference. Newborn infants prefer face-like stimuli (prefer a. over b. )
