Neural correlates of infant action processing relate to theory of mind in early childhood.

ABSTRACT: The mechanisms that support infant action processing are thought to be involved in the development of later social cognition. While a growing body of research demonstrates longitudinal links between action processing and explicit theory of mind (TOM), it remains unclear why this link emerges in some measures of action encoding and not others. In this paper, we recruit neural measures as a unique lens into which aspects of human infant action processing (i.e., action encoding and action execution; age 7 months) are related to preschool TOM (age 3 years; n = 31). We test whether individual differences in recruiting the sensorimotor system or attention processes during action encoding predict individual differences in TOM. Results indicate that reduced occipital alpha during action encoding p

SUBMITTER: Filippi C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7227764 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature