Abstract
The current study investigates how human infants process and interpret human movement. Neural correlates to the perception of biological motion by 8-month-old infants were assessed. Analysis of event-related potentials (ERPs) resulting from the passive viewing of upright and inverted point-light displays (PLDs) depicting human movement indicated a larger positive amplitude in right parietal regions between 200 and 300 ms for observing upright PLDs when compared with observing inverted PLDs. These results show that infants at 8 months of age process upright and inverted PLDs differently from each other. The implications for our understanding of infant visual perception are discussed.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 211-214 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Neuroscience Letters |
| Volume | 395 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2006 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 501005 Developmental psychology
Keywords
- Child, Preschool
- Electroencephalography
- Evoked Potentials
- Female
- Functional Laterality
- Humans
- Male
- Motion Perception
- Parietal Lobe
- Photic Stimulation
- Clinical Trial
- Journal Article
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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