Publication Date:
2000-11-25
Description:
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.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Csibra, G -- Davis, G -- Spratling, M W -- Johnson, M H -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Nov 24;290(5496):1582-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, School of Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK. g.csibra@bbk.ac.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11090357" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
*Electroencephalography
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Evoked Potentials, Visual
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Female
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*Form Perception
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Frontal Lobe/*physiology
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Humans
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Infant
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Male
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Occipital Lobe/physiology
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Parietal Lobe/physiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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