Three Months-Old' Preferences for Biological Motion Configuration and Its Subsequent Decline.

ABSTRACT: To perceive, identify and understand the action of others, it is essential to perceptually organize individual and local moving body parts (such as limbs) into the whole configuration of a human body in action. Configural processing-processing the relations among features or parts of a stimulus-is a fundamental ability in the perception of several important social stimuli, such as faces or biological motion. Despite this, we know very little about how human infants develop the ability to perceive and prefer configural relations in biological motion. We present two preferential looking experiments (one cross-sectional and one longitudinal) measuring infants' preferential attention between a coherent motion configuration of a person walking vs. a scrambled point-light walker (i.e., a stimulu

SUBMITTER: Lisboa IC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9139228 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature