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10-month-old infants are sensitive to the time course of perceived actions: Eye-tracking and EEG evidence

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Springer,  Anne
Department Psychology, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;
Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Basel, Switzerland;

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Stadler,  Waltraud
Department Psychology, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;
Human Movement Science, TU Munich, Germany;

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Bache, C., Springer, A., Noack, H., Stadler, W., Kopp, F., Lindenberger, U., et al. (2017). 10-month-old infants are sensitive to the time course of perceived actions: Eye-tracking and EEG evidence. Frontiers in Psychology, 8: 1170. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01170.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-C753-0
Abstract
Research has shown that infants are able to track a moving target efficiently – even if it is transiently occluded from sight. This basic ability allows prediction of when and where events happen in everyday life. Yet, it is unclear whether, and how, infants internally represent the time course of ongoing movements to derive predictions. In this study, 10-month-old crawlers observed the video of a same-aged crawling baby that was transiently occluded and reappeared in either a temporally continuous or non-continuous manner (i.e., delayed by 500 ms vs. forwarded by 500 ms relative to the real-time movement). Eye movement and rhythmic neural brain activity (EEG) were measured simultaneously. Eye movement analyses showed that infants were sensitive to slight temporal shifts in movement continuation after occlusion. Furthermore, brain activity associated with sensorimotor processing differed between observation of continuous and non-continuous movements. Early sensitivity to an action’s timing may hence be explained within the internal real-time simulation account of action observation. Overall, the results support the hypothesis that 10-month-old infants are well prepared for internal representation of the time course of observed movements that are within the infants’ current motor repertoire.