Cortical responses to shape-from-motion stimuli in the infant.

ABSTRACT: Our ability to extract three-dimensional (3-D) object structure from motion-carried information is a basic visual capacity that is fundamental to object perception. Despite a rich body of behavioral work demonstrating that infants are sensitive to motion-carried information from the early months of life, little is known about the cortical networks that support infants' use of motion-carried information to extract 3-D object structure. This study assessed patterns of cortical activation in infants aged 4 to 6 months as they viewed two types of visual stimuli: (a) shape-from-motion (SFM) displays, where coherent motion of randomly distributed dots gave rise to the percept of 3-D shape and (b) random motion (RM) displays, where dots' motions lacked a coherent structure and gave rise to the pe

SUBMITTER: Hirshkowitz A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5635270 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature