Childhood adversity can have wide-ranging and long-lasting effects on later life. But what
are the mechanisms that are responsible for these effects? This article brings together the …

Abstract CHENG, TW, KL Mills and JH Pfeifer. Revisiting adolescence as a sensitive period
for sociocultural processing. NEUROSCI BIOBEHAV REV XX (X) XXX-XXX, 2024. Waves of …

Sensitive periods, during which the impact of experience on phenotype is larger than in
other periods, exist in all classes of organisms, yet little is known about their evolution …

Face masks, which became prevalent across the globe during the COVID-19 pandemic,
have had a negative impact on face recognition despite the availability of critical information …

Contact with racial outgroups is thought to reduce the cross-race recognition deficit (CRD),
the tendency for people to recognize same-race (ie, ingroup) faces more accurately than …

The idea that visual coding and perception are shaped by experience and adjust to changes
in the environment or the observer is universally recognized as a cornerstone of visual …

Face learning has important critical periods during development. However, the
computational mechanisms of critical periods remain unknown. Here, we conducted a series …

The other-race effect (ORE) is characterized by processing advantages for faces of one's
own race over faces of another race and is observed at~ 9 months of age. Environmental …

The timing of the developmental emergence of holistic face processing and its sensitivity to
experience in early childhood are somewhat controversial topics. To investigate holistic face …

The role of visual experience in the development of face processing has long been debated.
We present a new angle on this question through a serendipitous study that cannot easily be …