11 Nov
2015
11 Nov
'15
6:48 p.m.
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its
talk by
Stefanie Höhl (University of Heidelberg)
Date: Please note that it will be on TUESDAY, November 17, 2015,
17.00-18.30
Title: Effects of eye contact and gaze on infants' looking, learning and
brain activity
Abstract: Soon after birth infants are very interested in faces and
seem to pay particular attention to eyes. Why is that? In a series of
eye tracking and EEG studies we have explored how infants perceive
other persons’ eye gaze and how this affects their own brain activity,
looking behavior and their learning about novel objects. We discovered
that 4-month-old infants recognize objects that were previously cued by
another person’s eye gaze and/or head direction. This is true even if
only schematic eyes are presented as cues, but not when the objects are
cued by non-social dynamic stimuli or contrast-reversed schematic eyes.
We also explored infants’ brain activities in response to
object-directed and non-object-directed eye gaze across the first year
of life and discovered substantial age-related differences.
Furthermore, we tested how infants react to eye contact in a live joint
attention interaction and found very similar activations in
9-month-olds as in adults. The studies will be discussed in the broader
context of infant social cognitive development and learning.
Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room
101.
We are looking forward to see you there!
See more at: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/day/2015-11-17
Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events
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