Geangu, Elena orcid.org/0000-0002-0398-8398, Roberti, Elisa and Turati, Chiara (2021) Do infants represent human actions cross-modally? An ERP visual-auditory priming study. Biological psychology. 108047. ISSN 0301-0511
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.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 Elsevier B.V. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | infancy,multisensory,auditory,human action,visual,ERPs |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EPSRC EP/R51181X/1 |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 10 Feb 2021 09:20 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 17:19 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108047 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108047 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:170901 |