Do infant represent the facial identity in a viewpoint-invariant manner? The neural adaptation study as measured by near-infrared spectroscopy

摘要

Neural adaptation paradigm using fMRI (fMRI-adaptation) is well established to examine the neural basis of the representation of object including face. We have applied the neural adaptation paradigm to NIRS measurement in infants and found that infants' temporal region showed an attenuated response (adaptation) during the repeated presentation of identical face (Kobayashi et al., VSS 2010). In the present study, we extended our findings of neural adaptation as measured by NIRS and showed that the temporal region of infant brain represented the facial identity in a view-invariant manner.