Longitudinal study of infants receiving extra motor stimulation, full-term control infants, and infants born preterm: High-density EEG analyses of cortical activity in response to visual motion.

ABSTRACT: Electroencephalography was used to investigate the effects of extrastimulation and preterm birth on the development of visual motion perception during early infancy. Infants receiving extra motor stimulation in the form of baby swimming, a traditionally raised control group, and preterm born infants were presented with an optic flow pattern simulating forward and reversed self-motion and unstructured random visual motion before and after they achieved self-produced locomotion. Extrastimulated infants started crawling earlier and displayed significantly shorter N2 latencies in response to visual motion than their full-term and preterm peers. Preterm infants could not differentiate between visual motion conditions, nor did they significantly decrease their latencies with age and locomotor ex

SUBMITTER: Borge Blystad J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9325384 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature