Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Xiaomei Zhou, Shruti Vyas, Jinbiao Ning, Margaret C. Moulson
Summary: The study compares the attentional mechanisms in adults and infants learning naturally varying faces, finding that infants have difficulty resisting contextual distractions during the learning process, leading to a potential lack of discrimination between familiar and novel faces.
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
Aurelie Bochet, Martina Franchini, Nada Kojovic, Bronwyn Glaser, Marie Schaer
Summary: Diminished orienting to social stimuli, especially faces, is a core feature of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). Children with ASD showed reduced exploration of emotional faces and lack of habituation to neutral faces, suggesting lower sensitivity to facial expression changes. In contrast, typically developing children demonstrated increased interest in emotional faces over time and clear habituation to neutral faces.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Simeng Gu, Yao Jiang, Mei Liu, Yumeng Li, Yuan Liang, Rou Feng, Minghong Xu, Fushun Wang, Jason H. Huang
Summary: This study investigated the emotional processing and deactivation strategies in individuals with avoidant attachment and found that they have difficulties in processing facial expressions, particularly showing less focus on the eyes of angry faces. They also exhibited distinct patterns of brain activity compared to secure individuals at different stages. These findings highlight the significance of avoidant individuals in social interaction.
FRONTIERS IN BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Ruth Kessler, Andrea Weber, Claudia K. Friedrich
Summary: The study used eye-tracking and ERP experiments to investigate how the language processing system handles formulaic language such as idioms. The results suggest that participants showed early decompositional processing of idioms and facilitated processing of correct completions across various regions of interest and time windows.
LANGUAGE AND SPEECH
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Nicolas Dollion, Marine Grandgeorge, Dave Saint-Amour, Anthony Hosein Poitras Loewen, Nathe Francois, Nathalie M. G. Fontaine, Noel Champagne, Pierrich Plusquellec
Summary: Past research suggests that individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have difficulties in decoding facial expressions. However, this study found that children with ASD who owned a service dog exhibited more focused visual scanning strategies during facial expression processing. They directed less attention to irrelevant areas and displayed a more differentiated scanning of relevant facial features.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Binbin Sun, Bryan Wang, Zhen Wei, Zhe Feng, Zhi-Liu Wu, Walid Yassin, William S. Stone, Yan Lin, Xue-Jun Kong
Summary: Electroencephalography (EEG) functional connectivity (EFC) and eye tracking (ET) were evaluated as objective screening methods for early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The study found that ASD children exhibited higher alpha band connectivity in the EEG and longer total fixation time in the ET under high restrictive interest stimuli. These biomarkers were significantly correlated with ADOS scores and restricted and repetitive behaviors (RRBs). Network-based machine learning prediction showed a 63.4% accuracy in identifying ASD.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Laurie Bayet, Katherine L. Perdue, Hannah F. Behrendt, John E. Richards, Alissa Westerlund, Julia K. Cataldo, Charles A. Nelson
Summary: This study investigated the neural underpinnings of processing facial emotions across changes in facial identity in 5- and 7-month-old infants. Using fNIRS, eye-tracking, and heart rate measures, researchers found significant neural activation to happy, fearful, and angry faces in different brain regions, with longer looking behavior towards angry faces. There were no differences in neural activations or looking behavior between the two age groups, suggesting developmental stability in responses to emotional facial expressions.
DEVELOPMENTAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Gizelle Anzures, Melissa Mildort, Cassandra Bell, Elizabeth Soethe
Summary: This study used eye tracking technology to investigate the impact of implicit racial bias on face recognition. The results showed that individuals spent more time looking at the internal features of own-race faces compared to other-race faces. Regardless of implicit bias, adults generally demonstrated an advantage in recognizing own-race faces.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Greta N. Minor, Deborah E. Hannula, Andrew Gordon, J. Daniel Ragland, Ana-Maria Iosif, Marjorie Solomon
Summary: This study used an eye-tracking task to investigate whether there are differences in memory-specific viewing patterns towards scenes between autistic and non-autistic individuals. The results showed no significant differences in viewing during the encoding process, suggesting comparable processing of scene details between the two groups. However, autistic individuals exhibited differences in explicit recognition accuracy for scenes with relational changes.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Eeva-Leena Kataja, Ana Joao Rodrigues, Noora M. Scheinin, Saara Nolvi, Riikka Korja, Tuomo Haikio, Eeva Ekholm, Nuno Sousa, Linnea Karlsson, Hasse Karlsson
Summary: Infants exposed to prenatal synthetic glucocorticoids may show atypical fear bias at 8 months, which could be related to changes in emotional processing. This atypical emotion processing may also be a predictor of emotional problems later in development. Future longitudinal studies are needed to evaluate the long-term consequences of sGC exposure for the developing brain.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Linguistics
Judith Schlenter
Summary: This review provides an update on the differences in prediction between first and second languages, showing that prediction in L2 processing often emerges later and/or is weaker than in L1 processing, and provides an explanation for the possible reasons behind these differences.
BILINGUALISM-LANGUAGE AND COGNITION
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Jasmine K. W. Lee, Steve M. J. Janssen, Alejandro J. Estudillo
Summary: This study investigates the role of holistic and featural processing in the processing and recognition of self, personally familiar, and unfamiliar faces. The results suggest that task demands modulate the perception of the own face and highlight the importance of distinct visual experience in the processing and recognition of the self-face.
CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Jonathan K. Wynn, Peter E. Clayson, Michael F. Green, Amy Jimenez, Junghee Lee, Eric A. Reavis, William P. Horan
Summary: People with schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders exhibit deficits in processing facial features, which contribute to difficulties in social interactions. The study used event-related potentials (ERPs) to assess the face processing deficits in individuals with psychosis, their siblings, and healthy comparison participants. The results showed that there were significant differences in ERPs between the psychosis group and the control group, indicating a face-selective N170 ERP component deficit in individuals with psychotic disorders.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Antonia Vehlen, Ines Spenthof, Daniel Toensing, Markus Heinrichs, Gregor Domes
Summary: The study evaluated a new eye tracking setup for investigating attentional processing of social stimuli in three independent studies, demonstrating feasibility, good data quality, as well as stability and accuracy in tracking eye movements during interactions between two real people.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Zhong Zhao, Zhipeng Zhu, Xiaobin Zhang, Haiming Tang, Jiayi Xing, Xinyao Hu, Jianping Lu, Qiongling Peng, Xingda Qu
Summary: This study utilized OpenFace 2.0 to quantify head movement in children with ASD and TD, showing that children with ASD exhibited more stereotyped and greater head movement. The study suggests the widespread use of head movement tracking techniques in autism research.