Article
The Whole Picture: Holistic Body Posture Recognition in Infancy
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
(2016)
Abstract
Holistic processing is tied to expertise and is characteristic of face and body perception by adults. Infants process faces holistically, but it is unknown whether they process body information holistically. In the present study, infants were tested for discrimination between body postures that differed in limb orientations in three conditions: in the context of the whole body, with just the isolated limbs that changed orientation, or with the limbs in the context of scrambled body parts. Five- and 9-month-olds discriminated between whole-body postures, but failed in the isolated-part and scrambled-body conditions, demonstrating holistic processing of information from bodies. These results indicate that at least some level of expertise in body processing develops quite early in life.
Keywords
- social perception,
- holistic processing,
- body information processing,
- infancy
Disciplines
Publication Date
April, 2016
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-015-0902-8
Publisher Statement
This document is an author manuscript from PMC. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-015-0902-8
Citation Information
Alyson J. Hock, Hannah White, Rachel Jubran and Ramesh S. Bhatt. "The Whole Picture: Holistic Body Posture Recognition in Infancy" Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Vol. 23 Iss. 2 (2016) p. 426 - 431 ISSN: 1069-9384 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/alyson-chroust/6/