Document Type

Article

Keywords

social perception, holistic processing, body information processing, infancy

Abstract

Holistic processing is tied to expertise and is characteristic of face and body perception by adults. Infants process faces holistically, but it is unknown whether they process body information holistically. In the present study, infants were tested for discrimination between body postures that differed in limb orientations in three conditions: in the context of the whole body, with just the isolated limbs that changed orientation, or with the limbs in the context of scrambled body parts. Five- and 9-month-olds discriminated between whole-body postures, but failed in the isolated-part and scrambled-body conditions, demonstrating holistic processing of information from bodies. These results indicate that at least some level of expertise in body processing develops quite early in life.

Publication Date

April 2016

Publication Title

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

ISSN

1069-9384

Volume

23

Issue

2

First Page

426

Last Page

431

Comments

This document is an author manuscript from PMC. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-015-0902-8

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-015-0902-8

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Repository URL

https://irl.umsl.edu/psychology-faculty/98