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T1 - Direct eye contact influences the neural processing of objects in 5-month-old infants
AU - Parise, Eugenio
AU - Reid, Vincent M.
AU - Stets, Manuela
AU - Striano, Tricia
PY - 2008/6
Y1 - 2008/6
N2 - Do 5-month-old infants show differences in processing objects as a function of a prior interaction with an adult? Using a live ERP paradigm we assessed this question utilizing a within-subjects design. Infants saw objects during two pretest phases with an adult experimenter. We recorded event-related potentials to the presentation of objects following the interactive pretest phases. Experimental conditions differed only in the nature of eye contact between the infant and the experimenter during the pretests. In one condition the experimenter engaged the infant with direct eye contact. In a second condition the experimenter looked only at the infant's chest. We found that the negative component, related to attentional processes, showed differences between experimental conditions in left fronto-central locations. These data show that 5-month-old infants allocate more attention to objects that have been previously seen during direct eye-contact interaction. In addition, these results clarify the functional nature of the negative component.
AB - Do 5-month-old infants show differences in processing objects as a function of a prior interaction with an adult? Using a live ERP paradigm we assessed this question utilizing a within-subjects design. Infants saw objects during two pretest phases with an adult experimenter. We recorded event-related potentials to the presentation of objects following the interactive pretest phases. Experimental conditions differed only in the nature of eye contact between the infant and the experimenter during the pretests. In one condition the experimenter engaged the infant with direct eye contact. In a second condition the experimenter looked only at the infant's chest. We found that the negative component, related to attentional processes, showed differences between experimental conditions in left fronto-central locations. These data show that 5-month-old infants allocate more attention to objects that have been previously seen during direct eye-contact interaction. In addition, these results clarify the functional nature of the negative component.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=50249151920&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/17470910701865458
DO - 10.1080/17470910701865458
M3 - Journal article
VL - 3
SP - 141
EP - 150
JO - Social Neuroscience
JF - Social Neuroscience
SN - 1747-0919
IS - 2
ER -