Neural mechanisms of infant learning: Differences in frontal theta activity during object exploration modulate subsequent object recognition

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Begus, Katarina, Southgate, Victoria and Gliga, Teodora (2015) Neural mechanisms of infant learning: Differences in frontal theta activity during object exploration modulate subsequent object recognition. Biology Letters, 11 (5). ISSN 1744-9561

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Abstract

Investigating learning mechanisms in infancy relies largely on behavioural measures like visual attention, which often fail to predict whether stimuli would be encoded successfully. This study explored EEG activity in the theta frequency band, previously shown to predict successful learning in adults, to directly study infants' cognitive engagement, beyond visual attention. We tested 11-month-old infants (N = 23) and demonstrated that differences in frontal theta-band oscillations, recorded during infants' object exploration, predicted differential subsequent recognition of these objects in a preferential-looking test. Given that theta activity is modulated by motivation to learn in adults, these findings set the ground for future investigation into the drivers of infant learning.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	electroencephalography,female,humans,infant,learning,male,pattern recognition, visual,theta rhythm
Related URLs:	http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/12297/
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	09 Oct 2018 13:30
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2022 04:10
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/68437
DOI:	10.1098/rsbl.2015.0041

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