ArticleCerebral cortex communications2020
Impression Formation in the Human Infant Brain.
Article in Cerebral cortex communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Origins of Face Responses in the Human Cortex: fNIRS and fMRI Evidence From Infants.Current directions in psychological science · 2026Article
- Cross-paradigm fNIRS brain activity in 1-month-old infants across The Gambia and the United Kingdom.Neurophotonics · 2026Article
- The motivated social brain: a neurodevelopmental and evolutionary framework for social curiosity.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Social Smiling and Laughter Are Linked to Enhanced Functional Brain Connectivity in Young Infants' Default Mode Network.Developmental psychobiology · 2025Article
- Novel Insights into the Social Functions of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex during Infancy.eNeuro · 2025Review
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- Dorso-medial prefrontal cortex responses to social smiles predict sociability in early human development.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- No evidence for discontinuity between infants and adults.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2023Article
- Motion artifact correction for resting-state neonatal functional near-infrared spectroscopy through adaptive estimation of physiological oscillation denoising.Neurophotonics · 2022Article
- Infants' neural responses to helping and hindering scenarios.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2022Article
- Preferential responses to faces in superior temporal and medial prefrontal cortex in three-year-old children.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
Forming an impression of another person is an essential aspect of human social cognition linked to medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) function in adults. The current study examined the neurodevelopmental origins of impression formation by testing the hypothesis that infants rely on processes localized in mPFC when forming impressions about individuals who appear friendly or threatening. Infants' brain responses were measured using functional near-infrared spectroscopy while watching 4 different face identities displaying either smiles or frowns directed toward or away from them (
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