Speed and direction changes induce the perception of animacy in 7-month-old infants

A large body of research has documented infants’ ability to classify animate and inanimate objects based on static or dynamic information. It has been shown that infants less than one year of age transfer animacy-specific expectations from dynamic point-light displays to static images. The present s...

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Main Authors: Birgit eTräuble, Sabina ePauen, Diane ePoulin-Dubois
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01141/full