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    Gamma oscillations and object processing in the infant brain

    Csibra, Gergely and Davis, G. and Spratling, M.W. and Johnson, M.H. (2000) Gamma oscillations and object processing in the infant brain. Science 290 (5496), pp. 1582-1585. ISSN 0036-8075.

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    Abstract

    An enduring controversy in neuroscience concerns how the brain “binds” together separately coded stimulus features to form unitary representations of objects. Recent evidence has indicated a close link between this binding process and 40-hertz (gamma-band) oscillations generated by localized neural circuits. In a separate line of research, the ability of young infants to perceive objects as unitary and bounded has become a central focus for debates about the mechanisms of perceptual development. Here we demonstrate that binding-related 40-hertz oscillations are evident in the infant brain around 8 months of age, which is the same age at which behavioral and event-related potential evidence indicates the onset of perceptual binding of spatially separated static visual features.

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    Item Type: Article
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences
    Depositing User: Sarah Hall
    Date Deposited: 05 Nov 2019 10:31
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:55
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/29783

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