The neuropsychology of infants’ pro-social preferences

The current study is the first to investigate neural correlates of infants’ detection of pro- and antisocial agents. Differences in ERP component P400 over posterior temporal areas were found during 6-month-olds’ observation of helping and hindering agents (Experiment 1), but not during observation...

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Autores principales: Gredebäck, Gustaf, Kaduk, Katharina, Bakker, Marta, Gottwald, Janna, Ekberg, Therese, Elsner, Claudia, Reid, Vincent, Kenward, Ben
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4381845/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25681955
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2015.01.006
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Sumario:The current study is the first to investigate neural correlates of infants’ detection of pro- and antisocial agents. Differences in ERP component P400 over posterior temporal areas were found during 6-month-olds’ observation of helping and hindering agents (Experiment 1), but not during observation of identically moving agents that did not help or hinder (Experiment 2). The results demonstrate that the P400 component indexes activation of infants’ memories of previously perceived interactions between social agents. This leads to suggest that similar processes might be involved in infants’ processing of pro- and antisocial agents and other social perception processes (encoding gaze direction, goal directed grasping and pointing).

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