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ArticleJournal of experimental child psychology2018

Infant perception of sex differences in biological motion displays.

Tawny Tsang, Marissa Ogren, Yujia Peng, Bryan Nguyen, Kerri L Johnson, Scott P Johnson

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Article in Journal of experimental child psychology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Recognition of humans from biological motion in infants.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023
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  4. Infants' identification of gender in biological motion displays.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tawny TsangUniversity of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Marissa OgrenUniversity of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Yujia PengUniversity of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Bryan NguyenUniversity of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Kerri L JohnsonUniversity of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Scott P JohnsonUniversity of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. Electronic address: scott.johnson@ucla.edu.
University of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

Origins of Object KnowledgeR01HD040432 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI JOHNSON, SCOTT P · 2002 to 2010
$1.8M
Social Attention in InfancyR01HD082844 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI JOHNSON, KERRI L., JOHNSON, SCOTT P · 2015 to 2019
$1.6M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD040432NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD082844
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We examined mechanisms underlying infants' ability to categorize human biological motion stimuli from sex-typed walk motions, focusing on how visual attention to dynamic information in point-light displays (PLDs) contributes to infants' social category formation. We tested for categorization of PLDs produced by women and men by habituating infants to a series of female or male walk motions and then recording posthabituation preferences for new PLDs from the familiar or novel category (Experiment 1). We also tested for intrinsic preferences for female or male walk motions (Experiment 2). We found that infant boys were better able to categorize PLDs than were girls and that male PLDs were preferred overall. Neither of these effects was found to change with development across the observed age range (∼4-18 months). We conclude that infants' categorization of walk motions in PLDs is constrained by intrinsic preferences for higher motion speeds and higher spans of motion and, relatedly, by differences in walk motions produced by men and women.

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Sex CharacteristicsAttentionFemaleHumansInfantMaleMotionMotion PerceptionVisual PerceptionBiological motion perceptionMotion processingPreferencesSex differencesSocial categorizationVisual social attention

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PMID29807312
PMCPMC5986598
OpenAlexW2805596543

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