Discrimination of animate and inanimate motion in 9-month-old infants: an ERP study.

ABSTRACT: Simple geometric shapes moving in a self-propelled manner, and violating Newtonian laws of motion by acting against gravitational forces tend to induce a judgement that an object is animate. Objects that change their motion only due to external causes are more likely judged as inanimate. How the developing brain is employed in the perception of animacy in early ontogeny is currently unknown. The aim of this study was to use ERP techniques to determine if the negative central component (Nc), a waveform related to attention allocation, was differentially affected when an infant observed animate or inanimate motion. Short animated movies comprising a marble moving along a marble run either in an animate or an inanimate manner were presented to 15 infants who were 9 months of age. The ERPs wer

SUBMITTER: Kaduk K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6987795 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature