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SUBMITTER: Bayet L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5597829 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bayet Laurie L Quinn Paul C PC Laboissière Rafael R Caldara Roberto R Lee Kang K Pascalis Olivier O
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20170901 1862
Human adults show an attentional bias towards fearful faces, an adaptive behaviour that relies on amygdala function. This attentional bias emerges in infancy between 5 and 7 months, but the underlying developmental mechanism is unknown. To examine possible precursors, we investigated whether 3.5-, 6- and 12-month-old infants show facilitated <i>detection</i> of fearful faces in noise, compared to happy faces. Happy or fearful faces, mixed with noise, were presented to infants (<i>N</i> = 192), p ...[more]