Neural signatures for sustaining object representations attributed to others in preverbal human infants.

ABSTRACT: A major feat of social beings is to encode what their conspecifics see, know or believe. While various non-human animals show precursors of these abilities, humans perform uniquely sophisticated inferences about other people's mental states. However, it is still unclear how these possibly human-specific capacities develop and whether preverbal infants, similarly to adults, form representations of other agents' mental states, specifically metarepresentations. We explored the neurocognitive bases of eight-month-olds' ability to encode the world from another person's perspective, using gamma-band electroencephalographic activity over the temporal lobes, an established neural signature for sustained object representation after occlusion. We observed such gamma-band activity when an object was

SUBMITTER: Kampis D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4685805 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature