| Literature DB >> 14667363 |
Jordy Kaufman1, Gergely Csibra, Mark H Johnson.
Abstract
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.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 14667363 PMCID: PMC1809955 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0067
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Biol Sci ISSN: 0962-8452 Impact factor: 5.349