Biological motion primes the animate/inanimate distinction in infancy.
Given that biological motion is both detected and preferred early in life, we tested the hypothesis that biological motion might be instrumental to infants' differentiation of animate and inanimate categories. Infants were primed with either point-light displays of realistic biological motion,...
Main Authors: | Diane Poulin-Dubois, Cristina Crivello, Kristyn Wright |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2015-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4319918?pdf=render |
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