| Infant and adult perceptions of possible and impossible body movements: An eye-tracking study. | |
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PMID: 22906302 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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This study investigated how infants perceive and interpret human body movement. We recorded the eye movements and pupil sizes of 9- and 12-month-old infants and of adults (N=14 per group) as they observed animation clips of biomechanically possible and impossible arm movements performed by a human and by a humanoid robot. Both 12-month-old infants and adults spent more time looking at the elbows during impossible compared with possible arm movements, irrespective of the appearance of the actor. These results suggest that by 12months of age, infants recognize biomechanical constraints on how arms move, and they extend this knowledge to humanoid robots. Adults exhibited more pupil dilation in response to the human's impossible arm movements compared with the possible ones, but 9- and 12-month-old infants showed no differential pupil dilation to the same actions. This finding suggests that the processing of human body movements might still be immature in 12-month-olds, as they did not show an emotional response to biomechanically impossible body movements. We discuss these findings in relation to the hypothesis that perception of others' body movements relies upon the infant's own sensorimotor experience. |
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Tomoyo Morita; Virginia Slaughter; Nobuko Katayama; Michiteru Kitazaki; Ryusuke Kakigi; Shoji Itakura |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-8-17 |
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Title: Journal of experimental child psychology Volume: - ISSN: 1096-0457 ISO Abbreviation: J Exp Child Psychol Publication Date: 2012 Aug |
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Created Date: 2012-8-21 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 2985128R Medline TA: J Exp Child Psychol Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
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Department of Integrative Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan. |
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