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