How learning to shake a rattle affects 8-month-old infants' perception of the rattle's sound: electrophysiological evidence for action-effect binding in infancy |
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Authors: | Paulus Markus Hunnius Sabine van Elk Michiel Bekkering Harold |
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Affiliation: | Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. m.paulus@donders.ru.nl |
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Abstract: | Bidirectional action-effect associations play a fundamental role in intentional action control and the development of the mirror neuron system. However, it has been questioned if infants are able to acquire bidirectional action-effect associations (i.e., are able to intentionally control their actions). To investigate this, we trained 8-month-old infants for one week to use a novel rattle that produced a specific sound when shaken. Infants were also presented with another sound, which was not related to an action. Thereafter, infants' EEG responses to these two sounds and to an additional, unfamiliar sound were recorded. Infants displayed a stronger mu-desynchronization above cortical motor sites (i.e., motor resonance) when listening to the action-related sound than when hearing other sounds. Our results provide therefore electrophysiological evidence that infants as young as 8 months are able to acquire bidirectional action-effect associations and parallel findings of audiovisual mirror neurons in the monkey brain. |
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Keywords: | Action-effect binding Sensorimotor learning Motor resonance Mirror neuron system Ideomotor principle Action training |
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