Do infants represent human actions cross-modally? An ERP visual-auditory priming study

Geangu, Elena; Roberti, Elisa; Turati, Chiara

doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108047

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“…In addition for 3-year-old children, there was an interaction between hemisphere and target with earlier N400 latency in the right compared to the left hemisphere (~14 ms) for "angry" words; and marginally earlier latency for "happy" compared to "angry" words in the left hemisphere (~9 ms, which was not significant after correction for multiple comparisons). These hemispheric effects are consistent with previous work in infants (e.g., Friedrich and Friederici, 2004;Geangu et al, 2021;Vogel et al, 2012) but their developmental trajectory into early childhood need to be investigated in more detail in future work.…”

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“…Both components can be present in infancy and childhood (e.g., Friedrich & Friederici, 2004Parise & Csibra, 2012;Sheehan et al, 2007). Moreover, as children mature, the two components may show a reduction in amplitude, a slowing in the latency of the peak response, and a change in hemispheric distribution (Geangu et al, 2021;Holcomb et al, 1992;Schapkin et al, 2000).…”

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Three- and Six-Year-Old Children are Sensitive to Natural Body Expressions of Emotion: An ERP Emotional Priming Study

Ke¹,

Vuong²,

Geangu³

2021

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Body movements provide a rich source of emotional information during social interactions. Although the ability to perceive biological-motion cues related to those movements begins to develop in infancy, processing those cues to identify emotions likely continues to develop into childhood. Previous studies use posed or exaggerated body movements, which may not reflect the kind of body expressions children experience. The present study used an event-related potential (ERP) priming paradigm to investigate the development of emotion recognition from more naturalistic body movements. Point-light displays of human adult bodies spontaneously expressing happy or angry emotional movements were used as prime stimuli, while audio recordings of the words “happy” and “angry” spoken with an emotionally neutral prosody were used as targets. We recorded the ERPs time-locked to the onset of the auditory target from 3- and 6-year-old children, and compared amplitude and latency of the N300 and N400 responses between the two age groups in the different prime-target conditions. Three-year-old children showed an interaction between the prime and target for the N400 amplitude, suggesting that they were sensitive to the emotional congruency between body movements and words. Six-year-old children did not show this congruency effect; however, they had earlier N300 and N400 latency than the younger children, suggesting that older children may process the stimuli more quickly. Overall, our results suggest that both age groups can use naturalistic body movements to identify emotions, with developmental changes in how quickly emotional information from such body expressions are processed.

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Three- and Six-Year-Old Children are Sensitive to Natural Body Expressions of Emotion: An ERP Emotional Priming Study

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Vuong²,

Geangu³

2021

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“…Our study has the advantage that it includes ecologically relevant stimuli. Hearing sounds of human locomotion is familiar to both blind and sighted people, and previous research has shown that sighted people are able to extract information about path and manner of motion from auditory input alone (Geangu et al, 2021;Mamus et al, 2019Mamus et al, , 2022. To better distinguish whether potential differences in the linguistic encoding of spatial information arise from the long-term effect of blindness or are due instead to momentary effects of lack of vision at encoding, we compared blind and sighted people to blindfolded people.…”

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Lack of Visual Experience Affects Multimodal Language Production: Evidence From Congenitally Blind and Sighted People

Mamus

Speed²,

Rissman

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The human experience is shaped by information from different perceptual channels, but it is still debated whether and how differential experience influences language use. To address this, we compared congenitally blind, blindfolded, and sighted people's descriptions of the same motion events experienced auditorily by all participants (i.e., via sound alone) and conveyed in speech and gesture. Comparison of blind and sighted participants to blindfolded participants helped us disentangle the effects of a lifetime experience of being blind versus the task-specific effects of experiencing a motion event by sound alone. Compared to sighted people, blind people's speech focused more on path and less on manner of motion, and encoded paths in a more segmented fashion using more landmarks and path verbs. Gestures followed the speech, such that blind people pointed to landmarks more and depicted manner less than sighted people. This suggests that visual experience affects how people express spatial events in the multimodal language and that blindness may enhance sensitivity to paths of motion due

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“…In the visual modality, the priming or repetition suppression paradigm has mainly been used to study infants' processing of faces, movements, or categories ( Gliga and Dehaene-Lambertz, 2007 ;Webb and Nelson, 2001 ;Geangu et al, 2021 ;Jeschonek et al, 2010 ). In adults, the N170 is consistently observed in response to faces ( Kappenman and Luck, 2011 ) and is larger for inverted than upright faces ( de Haan et al, 2002 ).…”

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Challenges and new perspectives of developmental cognitive EEG studies

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Do infants represent human actions cross-modally? An ERP visual-auditory priming study

Cited by 7 publications

References 155 publications

Three- and Six-Year-Old Children are Sensitive to Natural Body Expressions of Emotion: An ERP Emotional Priming Study

Three- and Six-Year-Old Children are Sensitive to Natural Body Expressions of Emotion: An ERP Emotional Priming Study

Lack of Visual Experience Affects Multimodal Language Production: Evidence From Congenitally Blind and Sighted People

Challenges and new perspectives of developmental cognitive EEG studies

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