Infant's brain responses to live and televised action

• Published in: NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) Vol. 32; no. 2; pp. 930 - 939
• Main Authors: Shimada, Sotaro, Hiraki, Kazuo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 15.08.2006; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adult; Arousal - physiology; Babies; Behavior; Brain Mapping; Dominance, Cerebral; Experiments; Female; Hemoglobins - metabolism; Humans; Infant; Male; Medical imaging; Motion Perception - physiology; Motor Cortex - physiology; Oxyhemoglobins - metabolism; Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology; Social Environment; Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared; Studies; Television

Whether human infants perceive televised stimuli in the same way to live stimuli largely remains unknown. Action observation, which has been extensively confirmed to elicit activation of internal motor representation, provides a promising framework for investigating this issue. This ‘mirror-matching...