Children's Event Related Potentials in Response to Intersensory Stimulation with Social and Non-social Stimulus
Chris Porter,
School of Family Life
Through a study of electrophysiological measures of brain activity (EEG), we hope to show that children at increasing ages have a heightened sensitivity to properties of stimuli that are either congruent or incongruent in their presentation as well as to demonstrate the social properties of brain activity linked to the presentation of human emotional displays that are either matched or mismatched. This research is set to demonstrate, through a series of interrelated experiments whether exposure to stimuli that occurs across multiple sensory modalities (sight and sound, human faces and voices) provides more than simply an additive component for processing, storing and discriminating information as children’s categorical and representational skills emerge. It will also help us to better understand the way infants begin to bring together and make sense of salient social information from adults’ emotional displays and voices and other sights and sounds that they encounter early in life.”
