Development of Tool Representations in the Dorsal and Ventral Visual Object Processing Pathways.

ABSTRACT: Tools represent a special class of objects, because they are processed across both the dorsal and ventral visual object processing pathways. Three core regions are known to be involved in tool processing: the left posterior middle temporal gyrus, the medial fusiform gyrus (bilaterally), and the left inferior parietal lobule. A critical and relatively unexplored issue concerns whether, in development, tool preferences emerge at the same time and to a similar degree across all regions of the tool-processing network. To test this issue, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure the neural amplitude, peak location, and the dispersion of tool-related neural responses in the youngest sample of children tested to date in this domain (ages 4-8 years). We show that children recruit o

SUBMITTER: Kersey AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4898669 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature