Representing occluded objects in the human infant brain

Jordy Kaufman; Gergely Csibra; Mark H. Johnson

doi:10.1098/rsbl.2003.0067

Representing occluded objects in the human infant brain

Jordy Kaufman, Gergely Csibra, Mark H. Johnson

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One of the most striking phenomena in cognitive development has been the apparent failure of infants to show 'object permanence' in manual reaching tasks although they show evidence for representing hidden objects in studies measuring looking times. We report a neural correlate of object permanence in six-month-old infants: a burst of gamma-band EEG activity over the temporal lobe that occurs during an occlusion event and when an object is expected to appear from behind an occluder. We interpret this burst as being related to the infants' mental representation of the occluded object.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	s140-s143
Journal	Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Volume	270
Issue number	SUPPL. 2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2003.0067
State	Published - 2003
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Egg
Gamma oscillations
Infant
Object permanence

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Representing occluded objects in the human infant brain

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