Journal article
How labels shape visuocortical processing in infants
Infancy, Vol.30(1), e12621
01/2025
DOI: 10.1111/infa.12621
PMID: 39245806
Abstract
Abstract The current study examined the extent to which labels shape visuocortical processing during the first year of life during a brief (~6‐min) associative learning task. Images of computer‐generated artificial objects were paired with either individual‐level (e.g., Jimmy, Boris) or category‐level labels (e.g., Hitchel) while event‐related potentials were recorded in response to the onset of the visual stimulus in 6‐ ( n = 41), 9‐ ( n = 27), and 12‐month‐old ( n = 28) infants. Analyses examined experience‐dependent visuocortical changes within and across trials, label conditions, and ages. Overall, results demonstrate that infants deploy greater visuocortical resources during the first half of associative learning trials and to stimuli paired with category‐level relative to individual‐level labels. Waveform morphologies also differed between stimuli paired with individual‐ and category‐level labels and across the age groups, with more complex deflections and amplitude differences between label type at 9‐ and 12‐month‐olds, but not 6‐month‐old infants. The present results highlight the importance of associative learning during infancy and suggest that category‐ versus individual‐level labels differentially direct infant attention and visuocortical processing.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- How labels shape visuocortical processing in infants
- Creators
- Maeve R. Boylan - University of FloridaBailey Garner - University of FloridaEthan Kutlu - University of IowaJessica Sanches Braga Figueira - University of FloridaRyan Barry-Anwar - University of FloridaZoe Pestana - University of California, DavisAndreas Keil - University of FloridaLisa S. Scott - University of Florida
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Infancy, Vol.30(1), e12621
- DOI
- 10.1111/infa.12621
- PMID
- 39245806
- NLM abbreviation
- Infancy
- ISSN
- 1525-0008
- eISSN
- 1532-7078
- Publisher
- WILEY
- Grant note
- National Science Foundation: BCS-1728133 UF Substance Abuse Training Center in Public Health from the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) of the National Institutes of Health: T32DA035167
National Science Foundation, Grant/Award Number:BCS-1728133; UF Substance Abuse Training Center in Public Health from the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) of the National Institutes of Health, Grant/Award Number:T32DA035167.
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 09/08/2024
- Date published
- 01/2025
- Academic Unit
- Communication Sciences and Disorders; Linguistics; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984701765902771
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