Selective action prediction in infancy depending on linguistic cues: an EEG and eyetracker study

Humans’ capacity to predict actions and to socially categorize individuals is at the basis of social cognition. Such capacities emerge in early infancy. By 6 months of age, infants predict others’ reaching actions considering others’ epistemic state. At a similar age, infants are biased to attend to...

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Autores: Colomer, Marc, Zacharaki, Konstantina, Sebastian-Galles, Nuria
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1301-23.2024
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Palabra clave:Action prediction
EEG
Eyetracker
Infancy
µ rhythm
Social categorization
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spelling Selective action prediction in infancy depending on linguistic cues: an EEG and eyetracker studyColomer, MarcZacharaki, KonstantinaSebastian-Galles, NuriaAction predictionEEGEyetrackerInfancyµ rhythmSocial categorizationHumans’ capacity to predict actions and to socially categorize individuals is at the basis of social cognition. Such capacities emerge in early infancy. By 6 months of age, infants predict others’ reaching actions considering others’ epistemic state. At a similar age, infants are biased to attend to and interact with more familiar individuals, considering adult-like social categories such as the language people speak. We report that these two core processes are interrelated early on in infancy. In a belief-based action prediction task, 6-month-old infants (males and females) presented with a native speaker generated online predictions about the agent's actions, as revealed by the activation of participants’ sensorimotor areas before the agent's movement. However, infants who were presented with a foreign speaker did not recruit their motor system before the agent's action. The eyetracker analysis provided further evidence that linguistic group familiarity influences how infants predict others’ actions, as only infants presented with a native speaker modified their attention to the stimuli as a function of the agent's forthcoming behavior. The current findings suggest that infants’ emerging capacity to predict others’ actions is modulated by social cues, such as others’ linguistic group. A facilitation to predict and encode the actions of native speakers relative to foreign speakers may explain, in part, why infants preferentially attend to, imitate, and learn from the actions of native speakers.This research was supported by grants from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013): European Research Council Grant agreement number 323961 (Under Control); the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (PID2021-123416NB-I00); and the Catalan Government (SGR 2021-00911; FI-9015-456763; FI_B2 00093; ICREA ACADEMIA 2019 Award). We thank Ildiko Kiraly and Katarina Begus for their discussions and suggestions; Andrea Riquelme who helped create the stimuli; Alice Drew and Chiara Santolin who proofread the manuscript; Valentina Ferrario who helped code the videos of participants; Xavier Mayoral and Silvia Blanch who provided technical support and helped improve the code to present stimuli; and all families and infants who participated in the experiments.Society for Neuroscience202520252024info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/70673http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1301-23.2024reponame:Repositorio Digital de la UPFinstname:Universitat Pompeu FabraInglésJournal of Neuroscience. 2024 Apr 3;44(14):e01301232024info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/323961info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PE/PID2021-123416NB-I00© The Authors. Published by the Society for Neuroscience https://www.jneurosci.org/content/jneuro/44/14/e1301232024.full.pdf. The work is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, as described at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/706732026-06-12T07:21:37Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Selective action prediction in infancy depending on linguistic cues: an EEG and eyetracker study
title Selective action prediction in infancy depending on linguistic cues: an EEG and eyetracker study
spellingShingle Selective action prediction in infancy depending on linguistic cues: an EEG and eyetracker study
Colomer, Marc
Action prediction
EEG
Eyetracker
Infancy
µ rhythm
Social categorization
title_short Selective action prediction in infancy depending on linguistic cues: an EEG and eyetracker study
title_full Selective action prediction in infancy depending on linguistic cues: an EEG and eyetracker study
title_fullStr Selective action prediction in infancy depending on linguistic cues: an EEG and eyetracker study
title_full_unstemmed Selective action prediction in infancy depending on linguistic cues: an EEG and eyetracker study
title_sort Selective action prediction in infancy depending on linguistic cues: an EEG and eyetracker study
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Colomer, Marc
Zacharaki, Konstantina
Sebastian-Galles, Nuria
author Colomer, Marc
author_facet Colomer, Marc
Zacharaki, Konstantina
Sebastian-Galles, Nuria
author_role author
author2 Zacharaki, Konstantina
Sebastian-Galles, Nuria
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Action prediction
EEG
Eyetracker
Infancy
µ rhythm
Social categorization
topic Action prediction
EEG
Eyetracker
Infancy
µ rhythm
Social categorization
description Humans’ capacity to predict actions and to socially categorize individuals is at the basis of social cognition. Such capacities emerge in early infancy. By 6 months of age, infants predict others’ reaching actions considering others’ epistemic state. At a similar age, infants are biased to attend to and interact with more familiar individuals, considering adult-like social categories such as the language people speak. We report that these two core processes are interrelated early on in infancy. In a belief-based action prediction task, 6-month-old infants (males and females) presented with a native speaker generated online predictions about the agent's actions, as revealed by the activation of participants’ sensorimotor areas before the agent's movement. However, infants who were presented with a foreign speaker did not recruit their motor system before the agent's action. The eyetracker analysis provided further evidence that linguistic group familiarity influences how infants predict others’ actions, as only infants presented with a native speaker modified their attention to the stimuli as a function of the agent's forthcoming behavior. The current findings suggest that infants’ emerging capacity to predict others’ actions is modulated by social cues, such as others’ linguistic group. A facilitation to predict and encode the actions of native speakers relative to foreign speakers may explain, in part, why infants preferentially attend to, imitate, and learn from the actions of native speakers.
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