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TY - JOUR
T1 - Eye contact during live social interaction modulates infants' oscillatory brain activity
AU - Hoehl, Stefanie
AU - Michel, Christine
AU - Reid, Vincent
AU - Parise, Eugenio
AU - Striano, Tricia
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - We examined infants’ oscillatory brain activity during a live interaction with an adult who showed them novel objects. Activation in the alpha frequency range was assessed. Nine-month-old infants responded with desynchronization of alpha-band activity when looking at an object together with an adult during a social interaction involving eye contact. When infant and experimenter only looked at the object without engaging in eye contact, no such effect was observed. Results are interpreted in terms of activation of a generic semantic knowledge system induced by eye contact during a social interaction.
AB - We examined infants’ oscillatory brain activity during a live interaction with an adult who showed them novel objects. Activation in the alpha frequency range was assessed. Nine-month-old infants responded with desynchronization of alpha-band activity when looking at an object together with an adult during a social interaction involving eye contact. When infant and experimenter only looked at the object without engaging in eye contact, no such effect was observed. Results are interpreted in terms of activation of a generic semantic knowledge system induced by eye contact during a social interaction.
KW - Infants
KW - EEG
KW - Alpha oscillations
KW - Social interaction
KW - Eye contact
U2 - 10.1080/17470919.2014.884982
DO - 10.1080/17470919.2014.884982
M3 - Journal article
VL - 9
SP - 300
EP - 308
JO - Social Neuroscience
JF - Social Neuroscience
SN - 1747-0919
IS - 3
ER -