The perception of biological motion by infants
- Author(s)
- Vincent M. Reid, Stefanie Hoehl, Tricia Striano
- 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.
- Organisation(s)
- External organisation(s)
- Universität Leipzig, Vanderbilt University, Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
- Journal
- Neuroscience Letters
- Volume
- 395
- Pages
- 211-214
- No. of pages
- 4
- ISSN
- 0304-3940
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2005.10.080
- Publication date
- 2006
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 501005 Developmental psychology
- Keywords
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/a87676cb-570c-4963-86da-9f9145df7628