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The neural basis of early action perception

早期动作感知的神经基础

基本信息

批准号：
8033020
负责人：
Jessica Sommerville
金额：
$ 9.5万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2010
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2010-09-24 至 2012-09-23
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8033020
关键词：
Accounting Address Adult Age Autistic Disorder Award Behavior Biological Neural Networks Child Clinical Psychology Cognition Cognitive Conduct Disorder Data Development Diagnosis Disease Event Event-Related Potentials Foundations Goals Hand Human Characteristics Infant Infant Development Intention Investigation Knowledge Learning Measures Memory Mentorship Methodology Methods Neurocognitive Neurosciences Perception Phase Pilot Projects Process Reading Research Research Personnel Scientific Advances and Accomplishments Social Development Social Psychology Speech Perception Techniques Time Training Translating Translations Work abstracting base brain behavior career cognitive neuroscience design developmental disease developmental psychology early childhood experience face perception infancy method development novel relating to nervous system remediation research study social cognition tool

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The ability to reason about other's behavior is a pervasive aspect of mature and developing cognition. In past work, I have significantly contributed to the field by demonstrating that infants possess a rich understanding of others' goals and intentions, and I have identified some of the factors and experiences, such as infants' developing action abilities, that account for developmental change in this domain. My long-term career goal is to provide a precise, mechanistic account of changes in infants and children's understanding of others' behavior. However, progress toward this objective relies on the development of methods to assess the neurocognitive processes underlying action perception. The activities proposed in this career enhancement award represent the first step toward systematically investigating the neural basis of action perception, using the event-related potential (ERP) technique. The career enhancement plan involves two primary components. During the training phase I will receive mentorship from two leading experts in the field of developmental cognitive neuroscience, and gain hands-on experience in the acquisition, processing and analysis of infant ERP data. During the research phase, I will conduct a pilot study to investigate the feasibility of using ERP methods to investigate the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying action perception in typically developing infants. The findings from this work will provide important information regarding the developmental mechanisms underlying early action perception and understanding. Critically, the proposed studies will advance scientific knowledge by creating a novel method for assessing infants' action perception, and other aspects of social cognition, and by translating concepts from developmental psychology to neuroscience and vice versa. In addition, these results of the proposed work may be particularly relevant to the diagnosis and remediation of autism, a developmental disorder that is characterized by deficits in reasoning about other people's behavior. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed research seeks to investigate the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying infants' perception and understanding of goal-directed action. This work will provide important information regarding the processes involved in typical cognitive and social development, information that can then be used in the diagnosis and remediation of developmental disorders, such as autism.

描述（由申请人提供）：对他人行为进行推理的能力是认知成熟和发展的普遍方面。在过去的工作中，我通过证明婴儿对他人的目标和意图具有丰富的理解，对该领域做出了重大贡献，并且我已经确定了一些因素和经验，例如婴儿发展的行动能力，这些因素和经验解释了该领域的发展变化。我的长期职业目标是为婴儿和儿童对他人行为理解的变化提供精确、机械的解释。然而，实现这一目标的进展依赖于评估行为感知背后的神经认知过程的方法的发展。在这个职业提升奖中提出的活动代表了使用事件相关电位（ERP）技术系统地研究行动感知的神经基础的第一步。职业发展计划包括两个主要部分。在培训阶段，我将接受两位发展认知神经科学领域的权威专家的指导，并在婴儿ERP数据的获取、处理和分析方面获得实践经验。在研究阶段，我将进行一项试点研究，探讨使用ERP方法研究典型发育婴儿动作感知的神经认知机制的可行性。这项工作的发现将为早期动作感知和理解的发展机制提供重要信息。重要的是，拟议的研究将通过创造一种新的方法来评估婴儿的行动感知和社会认知的其他方面，并通过将发展心理学的概念转化为神经科学，反之亦然，从而促进科学知识的发展。此外，这些工作的结果可能与自闭症的诊断和治疗特别相关，自闭症是一种发育障碍，其特征是无法对他人的行为进行推理。