Developmental changes within the extended face processing network: A cross‐sectional functional magnetic resonance imaging study

• Published in: Developmental neurobiology (Hoboken, N.J.) Vol. 82; no. 1; pp. 64 - 76
• Main Authors: Sahraei, Isabell, Hildesheim, Franziska E., Thome, Ina, Kessler, Roman, Rusch, Kristin M., Sommer, Jens, Kamp‐Becker, Inge, Stark, Rudolf, Jansen, Andreas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.01.2022
• Subjects: Adult; Amygdala; Brain - diagnostic imaging; Brain - physiology; Brain mapping; Brain Mapping - methods; Child; Children; Children & youth; Competition; Cross-Sectional Studies; extended face processing network; Face; Facial Recognition - physiology; Frontal gyrus; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Hemispheric laterality; Humans; inferior frontal gyrus; insula; lateralization; Magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods; Neuroimaging; extended face processing network; lateralization; amygdala; inferior frontal gyrus; insula; children

In the field of face processing, the so‐called “core network” has been intensively researched. Its neural activity can be reliably detected in children and adults using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). However, the core network's counterpart, the so‐called “extended network,” has b...