2-158 - Sensory-Motor Developing Processes Underlying Language, Attention, and Perception of the Environment

Session Type: Paper Session

Integrative Statement

The session gathers studies on sensory-motor developing processes (vision, eye-hand coordination, locomotion), and their consequences on language, attention, knowledge of the external world. The first paper examines the possibility that emotion discriminability and visual exploration of the face support language skills among 6- to 12-month-old infants. The second paper is a fine analysis of head, hand, and eye movements that comprise moments of focused attention in 36-month-olds during free play interaction with their mother. The third paper investigates the processes guiding 13- and 19-month old infants’ locomotor exploration. The fourth paper investigates the development of perception of 3D layout from 6 to 12 years (compared with adults). Children’s perceptual judgments are compared with those predicted by optimal inference and the underlying neuronal representations are investigated by decoding the activity in different cortical visual areas using fMRI with MVPA (multi-voxel pattern analysis).

Sub Unit

• Perceptual, Sensory, Motor

Chair

• Linda B Smith, Indiana University

Individual Presentations

• Dissociable Visual Correlates of Receptive and Expressive Language Development - Presenting Author: Tawny Tsang, UCLA; Scott P Johnson, University of California, Los Angeles

• Bridging Macro and Micro Level Measurement of Sustained Attention in Toddlers - Presenting Author: Maureen McQuillan, Indiana University, Bloomington; Chen Yu, Indiana University; Sumarga H Suanda, Indiana University; Linda B Smith, Indiana University; John E Bates, Indiana University, Bloomington

• Bouts of Steps: The Organization of Infant Exploration - Presenting Author: Whitney G Cole, New York University; Dejana Mladenovic, College of Staten Island and Graduate Center, CUNY; Scott Reginald Robinson, No Institutional Affiliation; Karen E Adolph, New York University

• Behavioral and brain changes during the optimisation of visual inference in childhood - Presenting Author: Marko Nardini, Durham University; Bauke van der Velde, University of Amsterdam; Rachel Kelly, Birkbeck, University of London; Tessa Dekker, University College London