Cargando…

Gaze cues of isolated eyes facilitate the encoding and further processing of objects in 4-month-old infants

We investigated young infants’ object encoding and processing in response to isolated eye gaze cues on the neural and behavioral level. In two experiments, 4-month-old infants watched a pair of isolated eyes gazing towards or away from novel objects. Subsequently, the same objects were presented alo...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Wahl, Sebastian, Marinović, Vesna, Träuble, Birgit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6969213/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30716584
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100621
_version_ 1783489292196118528
author Wahl, Sebastian
Marinović, Vesna
Träuble, Birgit
author_facet Wahl, Sebastian
Marinović, Vesna
Träuble, Birgit
author_sort Wahl, Sebastian
collection PubMed
description We investigated young infants’ object encoding and processing in response to isolated eye gaze cues on the neural and behavioral level. In two experiments, 4-month-old infants watched a pair of isolated eyes gazing towards or away from novel objects. Subsequently, the same objects were presented alone (i.e., without eyes). We measured event-related potentials (ERP) in response to object-directed and object-averted eye gaze as well as to the subsequently presented isolated objects. Using eye-tracking methods, we additionally measured infants’ looking behavior in reaction to the subsequently presented isolated objects. The ERP data revealed an enhanced slow wave positivity for object-directed eye gaze, indicating increased encoding of observed gaze cues. Regarding the objects, we found an enhanced Nc amplitude and increased looking times in response to previously uncued objects, indicating a novelty response on the neural and behavioral level. The results suggest that isolated eye gaze stimuli are sufficient to trigger object encoding and facilitate further object processing.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-6969213
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2019
publisher Elsevier
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-69692132020-01-21 Gaze cues of isolated eyes facilitate the encoding and further processing of objects in 4-month-old infants Wahl, Sebastian Marinović, Vesna Träuble, Birgit Dev Cogn Neurosci Original Research We investigated young infants’ object encoding and processing in response to isolated eye gaze cues on the neural and behavioral level. In two experiments, 4-month-old infants watched a pair of isolated eyes gazing towards or away from novel objects. Subsequently, the same objects were presented alone (i.e., without eyes). We measured event-related potentials (ERP) in response to object-directed and object-averted eye gaze as well as to the subsequently presented isolated objects. Using eye-tracking methods, we additionally measured infants’ looking behavior in reaction to the subsequently presented isolated objects. The ERP data revealed an enhanced slow wave positivity for object-directed eye gaze, indicating increased encoding of observed gaze cues. Regarding the objects, we found an enhanced Nc amplitude and increased looking times in response to previously uncued objects, indicating a novelty response on the neural and behavioral level. The results suggest that isolated eye gaze stimuli are sufficient to trigger object encoding and facilitate further object processing. Elsevier 2019-01-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6969213/ /pubmed/30716584 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100621 Text en © 2019 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
spellingShingle Original Research
Wahl, Sebastian
Marinović, Vesna
Träuble, Birgit
Gaze cues of isolated eyes facilitate the encoding and further processing of objects in 4-month-old infants
title Gaze cues of isolated eyes facilitate the encoding and further processing of objects in 4-month-old infants
title_full Gaze cues of isolated eyes facilitate the encoding and further processing of objects in 4-month-old infants
title_fullStr Gaze cues of isolated eyes facilitate the encoding and further processing of objects in 4-month-old infants
title_full_unstemmed Gaze cues of isolated eyes facilitate the encoding and further processing of objects in 4-month-old infants
title_short Gaze cues of isolated eyes facilitate the encoding and further processing of objects in 4-month-old infants
title_sort gaze cues of isolated eyes facilitate the encoding and further processing of objects in 4-month-old infants
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6969213/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30716584
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100621
work_keys_str_mv AT wahlsebastian gazecuesofisolatedeyesfacilitatetheencodingandfurtherprocessingofobjectsin4montholdinfants
AT marinovicvesna gazecuesofisolatedeyesfacilitatetheencodingandfurtherprocessingofobjectsin4montholdinfants
AT traublebirgit gazecuesofisolatedeyesfacilitatetheencodingandfurtherprocessingofobjectsin4montholdinfants