ArticleScientific reports2014
Developmental tuning of reflexive attentional effect to biological motion cues.
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- A deep-learning framework for human perception of abstract art composition.Journal of vision · 2021Article
- Cross-modal social attention triggered by biological motion cues.Journal of vision · 2020Article
- Visual information from observing grasping movement in allocentric and egocentric perspectives: development in typical children.Experimental brain research · 2017Article
- Backward-walking biological motion orients attention to moving away instead of moving toward.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2017Article
- Neurodevelopmental Hypothesis about the Etiology of Autism Spectrum Disorders.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2017Article
- Motion perception: a review of developmental changes and the role of early visual experience.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2015Review
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Abstract
The human visual system is extremely sensitive to the direction information retrieved from biological motion. In the current study, we investigate the functional impact of this sensitivity on attentional orienting in young children. We found that children as early as 4 years old, like adults, showed a robust reflexive attentional orienting effect to the walking direction of an upright point-light walker, indicating that biological motion signals can automatically direct spatial attention at an early age. More importantly, the inversion effect associated with attentional orienting emerges by 4 years old and gradually develops into a similar pattern found in adults. These results provide strong evidence that biological motion cues can guide the distribution of spatial attention in young children, and highlight a critical development from a broadly- to finely-tuned process of utilizing biological motion cues in the human social brain.
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