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SUBMITTER: Orioli G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5836937 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar-Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Orioli Giulia G Filippetti Maria Laura ML Gerbino Walter W Dragovic Danica D Farroni Teresa T
Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies 20170823 2
The ability to discriminate the trajectories of moving objects is highly adaptive and fundamental for physical and social interactions. Therefore, we could reasonably expect sensitivity to different trajectories already at birth, as a precursor of later communicative and defensive abilities. To investigate this possibility, we measured newborns' looking behavior to evaluate their ability to discriminate between visual stimuli depicting motion along different trajectories happening within the spa ...[more]