Human infants orient to biological motion rather than audiovisual synchrony

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2131-2135

  Falck Ytter, Terje ^a,b   Bakker, Marta ^a   Von Hofsten, Claes ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Audiovisual integration; Autism; Biological motion; Brain specialization; Infant development; Perception; Superior temporal sulcus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL SYNCHRONY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INFANT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79956160731     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.03.040     Document Type: Article

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