Children recruit distinct neural systems for implicit emotional face processing.

摘要: The ability to properly distinguish facial emotions has a protracted development, not maturing until well into adolescence. Emotional faces activate emotion-specific neural networks in adults; whether these are operational children is known. Using an implicit face-processing task 10-year-old children, we determined that the of fear, disgust and sadness recruited distinct systems. These systems included number regions typically associated with processing adults, namely amygdala parahippocampal gyrus, insula cingulate as fusiform superior temporal gyri. Thus, spite immature behavioral responses emotional explicit tasks, for present young children.