The perception of biological motion by infants

Autor(en)

Vincent M. Reid, Stefanie Hoehl, Tricia Striano

Abstrakt

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(en)

Externe Organisation(en)

Universität Leipzig, Vanderbilt University, Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften

Journal

Neuroscience Letters

Band

395

Seiten

211-214

Anzahl der Seiten

4

ISSN

0304-3940

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2005.10.080

Publikationsdatum

2006

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

501005 Entwicklungspsychologie

Schlagwörter

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/the-perception-of-biological-motion-by-infants(a87676cb-570c-4963-86da-9f9145df7628).html