Social network size relates to developmental neural sensitivity to biological motion
| Autor: | Katherine Rice Warnell, Laura A. Kirby, Elizabeth Redcay, Dustin Moraczewski, Kayla Velnoskey |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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genetic structures Adolescent Cognitive Neuroscience Motion Perception Middle childhood 050105 experimental psychology Social networks Social Networking 03 medical and health sciences Functional brain 0302 clinical medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sensitivity (control systems) Child Original Research Social network business.industry Social perception lcsh:QP351-495 05 social sciences Brain Replicate Biological motion pSTS Magnetic Resonance Imaging Brain-behavior relations lcsh:Neurophysiology and neuropsychology Biological motion perception Neural specialization Female business Psychology psychological phenomena and processes 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Vol 30, Iss, Pp 169-177 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 1878-9307 1878-9293 |
| Popis: | Funding for Open Access provided by the UMD Libraries' Open Access Publishing Fund. The ability to perceive others’ actions and goals from human motion (i.e., biological motion perception) is a critical component of social perception and may be linked to the development of real-world social relationships. Adult research demonstrates two key nodes of the brain’s biological motion perception system—amygdala and posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS)—are linked to variability in social network properties. The relation between social perception and social network properties, however, has not yet been investigated in middle childhood—a time when individual differences in social experiences and social perception are growing. The aims of this study were to (1) replicate past work showing amygdala and pSTS sensitivity to biological motion in middle childhood; (2) examine age-related changes in the neural sensitivity for biological motion, and (3) determine whether neural sensitivity for biological motion relates to social network characteristics in children. Consistent with past work, we demonstrate a significant relation between social network size and neural sensitivity for biological motion in left pSTS, but do not find age-related change in biological motion perception. This finding offers evidence for the interplay between real-world social experiences and functional brain development and has important implications for understanding disorders of atypical social experience. |
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