Temporal dynamics of visual representations in the infant brain

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Tools from computational neuroscience have facilitated the investigation of the neural correlates of mental representations. However, access to the representational content of neural activations early in life has remained limited. We asked whether patterns of neural activity elicited by complex visual stimuli (animals, human body) could be decoded from EEG data gathered from 12-15-month-old infants and adult controls. We assessed pairwise classification accuracy at each time-point after stimulus onset, for individual infants and adults. Classification accuracies rose above chance in both groups, within 500 ms. In contrast to adults, neural representations in infants were not linearly separable across visual domains. Representations were similar within, but not across, age groups. These findings suggest a developmental reorganization of visual representations between the second year of life and adulthood and provide a promising proof-of-concept for the feasibility of decoding EEG data within-subject to assess how the infant brain dynamically represents visual objects.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:45

Enthalten in:

Developmental cognitive neuroscience - 45(2020) vom: 02. Okt., Seite 100860

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bayet, Laurie [VerfasserIn]
Zinszer, Benjamin D [VerfasserIn]
Reilly, Emily [VerfasserIn]
Cataldo, Julia K [VerfasserIn]
Pruitt, Zoe [VerfasserIn]
Cichy, Radoslaw M [VerfasserIn]
Nelson, Charles A [VerfasserIn]
Aslin, Richard N [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Animals
Body
Decoding
Development
EEG
Infant
Journal Article
Objects
RSA
Representation
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Vision

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Date Completed 06.01.2021

Date Revised 20.09.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100860

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM31504120X