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Interpersonal Influences on Body Representations in the Infant Brain

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Drew, Ashley R., Meltzoff, Andrew N., Marshall, Peter J.·2018·Frontiers in Psychology
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02601PMC PMC6308796
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Within cognitive neuroscience, there is burgeoning interest in how the body is represented in the adult brain. However, there are large gaps in the understanding of neural body representations from a developmental perspective. Of particular interest are the interconnections between somatosensation and vision, specifically infants’ abilities to register correspondences between their own bodies and the bodies of others. Such registration may play an important role in social learning and in engendering feelings of connectedness with others. In the current study, we further explored the interpersonal aspects of neural body representations by examining whether responses to tactile stimulation in 7-month-old infants are influenced by viewing another’s body. During EEG recording, infants (N = 60) observed a live presentation of an experimenter’s hand or foot being touched. During the presentation of touch to the adult’s hand or foot, the infant received a brief tactile touch to their right hand or right foot. This resulted in four conditions: (i) Receive hand stimulation/observe hand stimulation, (ii) receive hand stimulation/observe foot stimulation, (iii) receive foot stimulation/observe hand stimulation, and (iv) receive foot stimulation/observe foot stimulation. Analyses compared responses overlying hand and foot regions when the observed limb matched the stimulated limb (congruent) and did not match (incongruent). In line with prior work, tactile stimulation elicited a somatotopic pattern of results in the somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) and the sensorimotor mu rhythm (6-9 Hz). Cross-modal influences were observed in the beta rhythm (11-13 Hz) response and in the late potential of the SEP response (400-600 ms). Beta desynchronization was greater for congruent compared to incongruent conditions. Additionally, tactile stimulation to the foot elicited larger mean amplitudes for congruent compared to incongruent conditions. The opposite was true for stimulation to the hand. This set of novel findings suggests the importance of considering cross-modal effects in the study of neural body representations in the infant brain. Continued work in this new area of infant neuroscience research can inform how interpersonal aspects of body representations may serve to undergird early social learning.

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  • Developmental studies show an early predisposition to stimuli processing in PPS in newborns or first-year infants.

    “Developmental studies also show the existence of early predisposition to stimuli processing in the PPS in newborns or in first-year infants”

    From The Peripersonal Space in a social world (2021) · cites this paper as Drew, Meltzoff, & Marshall, 2018

    The Discussion (page not provided) reports that very young infants attended more to spatially and temporally congruent visual-tactile events, and the Introduction describes related responses in 4-month-olds. These passages support early sensitivity to such stimuli, but they do not establish a predisposition to process stimuli in peripersonal space (PPS) specifically. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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    “Developmental studies also show the existence of early predisposition to stimuli processing in the PPS in newborns or in first-year infants (Drew et al., 2018; Orioli et al., 2018).”
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Authors
Drew, A. R., Meltzoff, A. N., & Marshall, P. J.
Affiliations
  • University of Washington (US)
  • Temple University (US)
Corresponding author
Drew, Ashley R.
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Frontiers in Psychology
Publisher
Frontiers Media SA
Published
2018-12-21
Volume
9
Pages
2601-2601
ISSN
1664-1078 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02601
PMC
PMC6308796
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W2906401189
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  • TUScholarShare (Temple University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
National Institutes of Health (1R21HD083756)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
Keywords
representation of the body, infant brain, somatosensory evoked potentials, beta desynchronization, cross-modal correspondence, tactile stimulation, social learning, interpersonal perception, somatotopic mapping, social connectedness

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