Cortical Face-Selective Responses Emerge Early in Human Infancy

This research was carried out at the Athinoula A. Martinos Imaging Center at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The authors thank Nayanika Das and Somaia Saba for their help with registrations; Steven Shannon, Atsushi Takahashi, and Boris Keil for their technical support; members of Saxe Lab and members of the Kanwisher Lab for their help during recruitment and data collection; the Cambridge Writing Group and members of the Saxe Lab and Kanwisher Lab for their helpful comments on various versions of the manuscript; Michelle Hung and Kirsten Lydic for code review; Sofia Riskin for data reconciliation; Hannah LeBlanc for all the things; and all the infants and their families. We gratefully acknowledge support of this project by a National Science Foundation (graduate fellowship to H.L.K.; Collaborative Research Award No. 1829470 to M.A.C.), National Institutes of Health (No. 1F99NS124175 to H.L.K.; No. 8K00DA058542-02 to H.L.K.; No. R21-HD090346-02 to R.S.; No. DP1HD091947 to N.K.; shared instrumentation Grant S10OD021569 for the MRI scanner), Templeton World Charity Foundation (No. 2022-30268 and No. 2022-30269 to M.A.C.), Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Azrieli Global Scholars Fellowship (to M.A.C.), the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, and the Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), funded by an National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center award (CCF-1231216).