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Methods: Forty-eight adolescents aged 13\u201317 years participated, including 24 with myopia and 24 with normal vision. EEG signals were recorded while participants performed a classic upright\u2013inverted face recognition task. A mixed-design ANOVA was applied to compare group differences in the amplitude and latency of the P1 and N1 components. Time\u2013frequency analyses were conducted to assess task-related oscillatory power in the \u03b8 (4\u20137 Hz) and \u03b1 (8\u201313 Hz) bands. Results: No significant group differences were found in P1 amplitude or latency, whereas the N1 latency was significantly longer in the myopia group (p = 0.049). Time\u2013frequency analysis revealed significantly greater \u03b8 synchronization (p = 0.034) and greater \u03b1 desynchronization (p = 0.018) within the early post-stimulus window corresponding to the P1 latency range in the myopia group, with a similar but nonsignificant trend observed within the window corresponding to the N1 range. The main effect of task confirmed a typical face inversion effect (FIE), characterized by smaller N1 amplitudes and longer latencies for inverted than upright faces (p &lt; 0.05). Conclusions: Myopia in adolescents is associated with delayed neural processing during facial structural encoding and enhanced \u03b8\u2013\u03b1 oscillatory activity within early post-stimulus periods, which may reflect altered early neural engagement in response to degraded visual input. 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