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SUBMITTER: Di Giorgio E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7803759 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Di Giorgio Elisa E Lunghi Marco M Vallortigara Giorgio G Simion Francesca F
Scientific reports 20210112 1
The human visual system can discriminate between animate beings vs. inanimate objects on the basis of some kinematic cues, such as starting from rest and speed changes by self-propulsion. The ontogenetic origin of such capability is still under debate. Here we investigate for the first time whether newborns manifest an attentional bias toward objects that abruptly change their speed along a trajectory as contrasted with objects that move at a constant speed. To this end, we systematically manipu ...[more]