Deficits in Sensitivity to Spacing After Early Visual Deprivation in Humans: A Comparison of Human Faces, Monkey Faces, and Houses
Deficits in Sensitivity to Spacing After Early Visual Deprivation in Humans: A Comparison of Human Faces, Monkey Faces, and Houses
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10.1002/dev.20473
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发表时间：
2010-12-01
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2.2
通讯作者：
Maurer, Daphne
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作者：
Robbins, Rachel A.;Nishimura, Mayu;Maurer, Daphne
由双眼先天性白内障引起的早期视觉剥夺导致在辨别特征间距不同但特征形状不同的面孔方面存在缺陷(Le Grand等人)。[2001]自然410：810)。我们通过测试患者在人和猴子的脸(实验1)和房子(实验2)中区分特征间距不同的刺激的能力来研究这些缺陷是否是人脸特有的。患者作为一个群体，只在一项任务上表现出缺陷：他们在辨别人脸特征间距方面的准确率低于正常水平。相比之下，他们在区分猴子脸和房子里的特征间距方面是正常的。结果表明，早期的视觉经验对于建立(或保存)用于处理人脸的神经结构是必要的，但对于处理对象通常不是必要的。(C)2010年威利期刊公司开发心理学杂志52：775-781,2010。
Early visual deprivation caused by bilateral congenital cataracts produces deficits in discriminating faces that differ in the spacing of features, but not in feature shape (Le Grand et al. [2001] Nature 410: 810). We investigated whether these deficits are specific to human faces by testing patients' ability to discriminate between stimuli differing only in feature spacing in human and monkey faces (Experiment 1) and in houses (Experiment 2). Patients, as a group, showed deficits on only one task: they had lower accuracy than normal in discriminating feature spacing in human faces. In contrast, they were normal in discriminating feature spacing in monkey faces and in houses. The results suggest that early visual experience is necessary to set up (or preserve) the neural architecture used for processing human faces, but not for processing objects in general. (C) 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Dev Psychobiol 52: 775-781, 2010.