Exploration of links between action perception and action production in early development
Lead Research Organisation:
Durham University
Department Name: Psychology
Abstract
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Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
| Vincent Reid (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Michel C
(2017)
Event-related potentials discriminate familiar and unusual goal outcomes in 5-month-olds and adults.
in Developmental psychology
Reid VM
(2019)
Links between action perception and action production in 10-week-old infants.
in Neuropsychologia
| Description | This research explored whether there was a relationship between the experiences they have and how they see the world. We gave some infants the experience of a stepping reflex and looked at brain activity related to how they saw walking and crawling images. We compared this to infants who had not had this experience. What we found is that the brain activations of the infants who had some experience were more similar to the sorts of brain activity that we would expect at older ages of development. In other words, it is likely that the experience of walking altered the way that the infants saw the walking movies. We published this research in the journal Neuropsychologia. We also explored other ways that the infant understands how people move, and the actions that they take. We published this research in the journal Developmental Psychology. |
| Exploitation Route | This projects shows that infant experience alters the way the infant perceives the visual world. This has implications for our understanding of how infants develop, and how different aspects of development interact with each other. Prior work had shown relationships between experiencing actions and observing actions. The current work shows that these relationships are at the more fundamental level of biological movement in addition to the cognitive level of actions. This helps us to understand how development works. |
| Sectors | Education,Other |
| URL | http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/babylab/ |
| Description | This work has produced two peer reviewed articles - in the journals Neuropsychologia and Developmental Psychology. The work from this grant was presented at a number of international conferences. It feeds into an area of work that strengthened throughout the past decade and showed that links between social information processing and motor development were things that needed to be considered. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2009 |
| Sector | Other |
| Impact Types | Cultural |