Visual category representations in the infant brain

Autor(en)
Siying Xie, Stefanie Hoehl, Merle Moeskops, Ezgi Kayhan, Christian Kliesch, Bert Turtleton, Moritz Koster, Radoslaw M. Cichy
Abstrakt

Visual categorization is a human core cognitive capacity

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2 that depends on the development of visual category representations in the infant brain.

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7 However, the exact nature of infant visual category representations and their relationship to the corresponding adult form remains unknown.

8 Our results clarify the nature of visual category representations from electroencephalography (EEG) data in 6- to 8-month-old infants and their developmental trajectory toward adult maturity in the key characteristics of temporal dynamics,

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9 representational format,

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12 and spectral properties.

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14 Temporal dynamics change from slowly emerging, developing representations in infants to quickly emerging, complex representations in adults. Despite those differences, infants and adults already partly share visual category representations. The format of infants’ representations is visual features of low to intermediate complexity, whereas adults’ representations also encode high-complexity features. Theta band activity contributes to visual category representations in infants, and these representations are shifted to the alpha/beta band in adults. Together, we reveal the developmental neural basis of visual categorization in humans, show how information transmission channels change in development, and demonstrate the power of advanced multivariate analysis techniques in infant EEG research for theory building in developmental cognitive science.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Psychologie der Entwicklung und Bildung
Externe Organisation(en)
Freie Universität Berlin (FU), Universität Potsdam, Universität Regensburg, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
Journal
Current Biology
Band
32
Seiten
5422-5432.e6
Anzahl der Seiten
18
ISSN
0960-9822
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.016
Publikationsdatum
12-2022
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
501005 Entwicklungspsychologie
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all), Neuroscience(all)
Link zum Portal
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/visual-category-representations-in-the-infant-brain(e5850319-ba3f-473f-9ee5-7a37c92112f3).html