Object processing
This visual pathway is also called the “what” pathway
Ventral stream
This is described as a passionate, cross-situational, and persistent interest in a category of objects
Extremely intense interest (EII)
This indicates that heredity plays a role in the presentation of DP
Higher rates of DP in some families than others
Coordinated attention between two individuals and an object
Joint attention
This case study of hippocampus removal provided important knowledge about brain areas important to memory
H. M.
What object properties are encoded by neurons in the dorsal pathway?
Size, shape, orientation, & relative motion
The inability to develop adult face-processing skills is known as
Developmental prosopagnosia
Research by Dalrymple and colleagues (2017) indicated that children with DP were better a recognizing ___ than ____
Bikes; faces
Joint attention has proven important to this area of language development
Word learning
Explicit memory includes these two distinct subtypes
Episodic and semantic memory
Piaget may have overestimated the age at which infants develop object permanence because
His task required infants to reach for objects (confound between object permanence and reaching ability)
James and James (2013) found that this brain region was greater in response to Pokemon characters in Pokemon-experts compared with non-experts
Fusiform face area (FFA)
At the neural level, adults with DP show a greater amplitude response N170 to ____ than _____
Faces; houses
These are used to assess children’s theory of mind
False belief tasks
This type of memory shows little development after 3 years of age
Implicit memory
Visual processing is split into two streams at this location in the cortex
Primary visual cortex
According to this perspective, there is an innate face processing mechanism that leads to early specialized face responses
Maturational perspective
fMRI studies indicate that this brain area is more active during face processing in individuals with DP than in control participants
Prefrontal cortex
This cortical area is consistently activated when children engage in mentalizing
Medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC)
The sudden improvement in memory skill between 9 and 10 months of age is attributed to
Medial temporal lobe maturation (hippocampus, perihinal, entorhinal, parahippocampal cortices)
Two visual pathways are beneficial because...
Ventral stream is transformation-invariant, while dorsal stream relies on sensitivity to transformation
Conte and colleagues’ (2020) ERP study indicates that specialized neural responses to faces emerge around
9-12 months of age
According to this perspective, DP may result from lack of specialization of brain areas responsible for face processing
Maturational perspective
Improved performance on theory of mind tasks associated with social experience support this perspective on brain development
Interactive specialization perspective
Improvement of children in identifying the source of information has been linked to this brain area
Prefrontal cortex