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TY - JOUR
T1 - The neuropsychology of infants' pro-social preferences
AU - Gredebäck, Gustaf
AU - Kaduk, Katharina
AU - Bakker, Marta
AU - Gottwald, Janna
AU - Ekberg, Therese
AU - Elsner, Claudia
AU - Reid, Vincent
AU - Kenward, Benjamin
PY - 2015/4
Y1 - 2015/4
N2 - The current study is the first to investigate neural correlates of infants’ detection of pro- and antisocial agents. Differences in ERP component P400 over posterior temporal areas were found during six-month-olds’ observation of helping and hindering agents (Experiment 1), but not during observation of identically moving agents that did not help or hinder (Experiment 2). The results demonstrate that the P400 component indexes activation of infants’ memories of previously perceived interactions between social agents. This leads to suggest that similar processes might be involved in infants’ processing of pro- and antisocial agents and other social perception processes (encoding gaze direction, goal directed grasping and pointing).
AB - The current study is the first to investigate neural correlates of infants’ detection of pro- and antisocial agents. Differences in ERP component P400 over posterior temporal areas were found during six-month-olds’ observation of helping and hindering agents (Experiment 1), but not during observation of identically moving agents that did not help or hinder (Experiment 2). The results demonstrate that the P400 component indexes activation of infants’ memories of previously perceived interactions between social agents. This leads to suggest that similar processes might be involved in infants’ processing of pro- and antisocial agents and other social perception processes (encoding gaze direction, goal directed grasping and pointing).
KW - ERP
KW - P400
KW - Prosocial
KW - Empathy
KW - Infant
KW - EEG
U2 - 10.1016/j.dcn.2015.01.006
DO - 10.1016/j.dcn.2015.01.006
M3 - Journal article
VL - 12
SP - 106
EP - 113
JO - Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
JF - Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
SN - 1878-9307
ER -