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Does cleft palate repair surgery restore normal neural processing for infant faces?
Presentation Year
2024
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College of Professional Studies
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Infant faces readily capture our attention and elicit enhanced neural processing, likely due to their importance in facilitating bonds
with caregivers. Cues of poor health are associated with a lower degree of parental investment and facial malformations have been
shown to negatively impact early infant-caregiver interactions, possibly due to altered perceptual processing of these faces compared to unaffected infant faces. The current study used eye tracking and electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate responses to infant faces before and after cleft palate repair surgery.
with caregivers. Cues of poor health are associated with a lower degree of parental investment and facial malformations have been
shown to negatively impact early infant-caregiver interactions, possibly due to altered perceptual processing of these faces compared to unaffected infant faces. The current study used eye tracking and electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate responses to infant faces before and after cleft palate repair surgery.
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Messina
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