Human infants dissociate structural and dynamic information in biological motion: Evidence from neural systems

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 161-167

  Reid, Vincent M ^a   Hoehl, Stefanie ^b   Landt, Jennifer ^b   Striano, Tricia ^c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological motion; Body schema; Event related potentials; Frontal cortex; Infants; Parietal cortex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MOTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PARIETAL LOBE; REFERENCE VALUES; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 45149086406     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsn008     Document Type: Article

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