scholarly journals Categorization of objects and faces in the infant brain and its sensitivity to maternal odor: further evidence for the role of intersensory congruency in perceptual development

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 100930 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Rekow ◽  
Arnaud Leleu ◽  
Fanny Poncet ◽  
Fabrice Damon ◽  
Bruno Rossion ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Development ◽  
Infant Brain ◽  
Maternal Odor

The Role of Musical Development in Early Language Acquisition

2018 ◽  
pp. 565-591
Author(s):  
Anthony Brandt ◽  
L. Robert Slevc ◽  
Molly Gebrian
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Developmental Disorders ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Current Understanding ◽  
Early Language ◽  
Music And Language ◽  
Language And Music ◽  
Infant Brain

Language and music are readily distinguished by adults, but there is growing evidence that infants first experience speech as a special type of music. By listening to the phonemic inventory and prosodic patterns of their caregivers’ speech, infants learn how their native language is composed, later bootstrapping referential meaning onto this musical framework. Our current understanding of infants’ sensitivities to the musical features of speech, the co-development of musical and linguistic abilities, and shared developmental disorders, supports the view that music and language are deeply entangled in the infant brain and modularity emerges over the course of development. This early entanglement of music and language is crucial to the cultural transmission of language and children’s ability to learn any of the world’s tongues.

Maternal odor shapes rapid face categorization in the infant brain

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnaud Leleu ◽  
Diane Rekow ◽  
Fanny Poncet ◽  
Benoist Schaal ◽  
Karine Durand ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Face Categorization ◽  
Infant Brain ◽  
Maternal Odor

scholarly journals Maternal odor shapes rapid face categorization in the 4-month-old infant brain

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 787 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnaud Leleu ◽  
Diane Rekow ◽  
Fanny Poncet ◽  
Bruno Rossion ◽  
Karine Durand ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Face Categorization ◽  
Infant Brain ◽  
Maternal Odor

scholarly journals Action observation in the infant brain: The role of body form and motion

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Grossmann ◽  
Emily S. Cross ◽  
Luca F. Ticini ◽  
Moritz M. Daum
Keyword(s):  
Action Observation ◽  
Body Form ◽  
Infant Brain

scholarly journals Learning in Infancy Is Active, Endogenously Motivated, and Depends on the Prefrontal Cortices

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 247-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gal Raz ◽  
Rebecca Saxe
Keyword(s):  
Prefrontal Cortex ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Association Cortex ◽  
Common View ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Intrinsic Motivations ◽  
Statistical Regularities ◽  
Infant Brain ◽  
Selection Of

A common view of learning in infancy emphasizes the role of incidental sensory experiences from which increasingly abstract statistical regularities are extracted. In this view, infant brains initially support basic sensory and motor functions, followed by maturation of higher-level association cortex. Here, we critique this view and posit that, by contrast and more like adults, infants are active, endogenously motivated learners who structure their own learning through flexible selection of attentional targets and active interventions on their environment. We further argue that the infant brain, and particularly the prefrontal cortex (PFC), is well equipped to support these learning behaviors. We review recent progress in characterizing the function of the infant PFC, which suggests that, as in adults, the PFC is functionally specialized and highly connected. Together, we present an integrative account of infant minds and brains, in which the infant PFC represents multiple intrinsic motivations, which are leveraged for active learning.

scholarly journals Odor-driven face-like categorization in the human infant brain

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (21) ◽  
pp. e2014979118
Author(s):  
Diane Rekow ◽  
Jean-Yves Baudouin ◽  
Fanny Poncet ◽  
Fabrice Damon ◽  
Karine Durand ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Right Hemisphere ◽  
Young Infant ◽  
Human Infant ◽  
Perceptual Development ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Face Categorization ◽  
Infant Brain ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right ◽  
Human Faces

Understanding how the young infant brain starts to categorize the flurry of ambiguous sensory inputs coming in from its complex environment is of primary scientific interest. Here, we test the hypothesis that senses other than vision play a key role in initiating complex visual categorizations in 20 4-mo-old infants exposed either to a baseline odor or to their mother’s odor while their electroencephalogram (EEG) is recorded. Various natural images of objects are presented at a 6-Hz rate (six images/second), with face-like object configurations of the same object categories (i.e., eliciting face pareidolia in adults) interleaved every sixth stimulus (i.e., 1 Hz). In the baseline odor context, a weak neural categorization response to face-like stimuli appears at 1 Hz in the EEG frequency spectrum over bilateral occipitotemporal regions. Critically, this face-like–selective response is magnified and becomes right lateralized in the presence of maternal body odor. This reveals that nonvisual cues systematically associated with human faces in the infant’s experience shape the interpretation of face-like configurations as faces in the right hemisphere, dominant for face categorization. At the individual level, this intersensory influence is particularly effective when there is no trace of face-like categorization in the baseline odor context. These observations provide evidence for the early tuning of face-(like)–selective activity from multisensory inputs in the developing brain, suggesting that perceptual development integrates information across the senses for efficient category acquisition, with early maturing systems such as olfaction driving the acquisition of categories in later-developing systems such as vision.

scholarly journals Learning in Infancy is Active, Endogenously Motivated, and Depends on Prefrontal Cortices

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gal Raz ◽  
Rebecca Saxe
Keyword(s):  
Prefrontal Cortex ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Association Cortex ◽  
Common View ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Intrinsic Motivations ◽  
Statistical Regularities ◽  
Infant Brain ◽  
Selection Of

A common view of learning in infancy emphasizes the role of incidental, sensory experiences from which increasingly abstract statistical regularities are extracted. In this view, infant brains initially support basic sensory and motor functions, followed by maturation of higher-level association cortex. Here, we critique this view and posit that, by contrast and more like adults, infants are active, endogenously motivated learners who structure their own learning through flexible selection of attentional targets and active interventions on their environment. We further argue that the infant brain, and particularly the prefrontal cortex (PFC), is well-equipped to support these learning behaviors. We review recent progress in characterizing the function of the infant PFC, which suggests that, also like adults, PFC is functionally specialized and highly connected. Together, we present an integrative account of infant minds and brains, in which the infant PFC represents multiple intrinsic motivations, which are leveraged for active learning.

Infant Brain Tumors: Incidence, Survival, and the Role of Radiation Based on Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Data

2012 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 341-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Bishop ◽  
Mark W. McDonald ◽  
Andrew L. Chang ◽  
Natia Esiashvili
Keyword(s):  
Brain Tumors ◽  
Seer Data ◽  
Infant Brain ◽  
End Results

Book ReviewPerinatal and Infant Brain Imaging: Role of ultrasound and computed tomography

1984 ◽  
Vol 311 (16) ◽  
pp. 1063-1063
Author(s):  
Thomas P. Naidich
Keyword(s):  
Computed Tomography ◽  
Brain Imaging ◽  
Infant Brain
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