Relations between infants' emerging reach-grasp competence and event-related desynchronization in EEG.

ABSTRACT: Recent reports of similar patterns of brain electrical activity (electroencephalogram: EEG) during action execution and observation, recorded from scalp locations over motor-related regions in infants and adults, have raised the possibility that two foundational abilities--controlling one's own intentional actions and perceiving others' actions--may be integrally related during ontogeny. However, to our knowledge, there are no published reports of the relations between developments in motor skill (i.e. recording actual motor skill performance) and EEG during both action execution and action observation. In the present study we collected EEG from 21 9-month-olds who were given opportunities to reach for toys and who also observed an experimenter reach for toys. Event-related desynchronizati

SUBMITTER: Cannon EN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7470427 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature