Event-related potentials discriminate familiar and unusual goal outcomes in 5-month-olds and adults.

ABSTRACT: Previous event-related potential (ERP) work has indicated that the neural processing of action sequences develops with age. Although adults and 9-month-olds use a semantic processing system, perceiving actions activates attentional processes in 7-month-olds. However, presenting a sequence of action context, action execution and action conclusion could challenge infants' developing working memory capacities. A shortened stimulus presentation of a highly familiar action, presenting only the action conclusion of an eating action, may therefore enable semantic processing in even younger infants. The present study examined neural correlates of the processing of expected and unexpected action conclusions in adults and infants at 5 months of age. We analyzed ERP components reflecting semantic pro

SUBMITTER: Michel C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5611762 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature