Recent findings indicate that 7-months-old infants perceive and represent the sounds inherent to moving human bodies. However, it is not known whether infants integrate auditory and visual information in representations of specific human actions. To address this issue, we used ERPs to investigate infants’ neural sensitivity to the correspondence between sounds and images of human actions. In a cross-modal priming paradigm, 7-months-olds were presented with the sounds generated by two types of human body movement, walking and handclapping, after watching the kinematics of those actions in either a congruent or incongruent manner. ERPs recorded from frontal, central and parietal electrodes in response to action sounds indicate that 7-months-old infants perceptually link the visual and auditory cues of human actions. However, at this age these percepts do not seem to be integrated in cognitive multimodal representations of human actions.

Geangu, E., Roberti, E., Turati, C. (2021). Do infants represent human actions cross-modally? An ERP visual-auditory priming study. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 160(March 2021) [10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108047].

Do infants represent human actions cross-modally? An ERP visual-auditory priming study

Geangu E.
;
Roberti E.
;
Turati C.
2021

Abstract

Recent findings indicate that 7-months-old infants perceive and represent the sounds inherent to moving human bodies. However, it is not known whether infants integrate auditory and visual information in representations of specific human actions. To address this issue, we used ERPs to investigate infants’ neural sensitivity to the correspondence between sounds and images of human actions. In a cross-modal priming paradigm, 7-months-olds were presented with the sounds generated by two types of human body movement, walking and handclapping, after watching the kinematics of those actions in either a congruent or incongruent manner. ERPs recorded from frontal, central and parietal electrodes in response to action sounds indicate that 7-months-old infants perceptually link the visual and auditory cues of human actions. However, at this age these percepts do not seem to be integrated in cognitive multimodal representations of human actions.
Articolo in rivista - Articolo scientifico
Auditory; ERPs; Human action; Infancy; Multisensory; Visual;
English
14-feb-2021
2021
160
March 2021
108047
none
Geangu, E., Roberti, E., Turati, C. (2021). Do infants represent human actions cross-modally? An ERP visual-auditory priming study. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 160(March 2021) [10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108047].
File in questo prodotto:
Non ci sono file associati a questo prodotto.

I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.

Utilizza questo identificativo per citare o creare un link a questo documento: https://hdl.handle.net/10281/306573
Citazioni
  • Scopus 6
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.isi??? 6
Social impact