title: Development of Visual Motion Perception for Prospective Control: Brain and Behavioral Studies in Infants.
abstract: During infancy, smart perceptual mechanisms develop allowing infants to judge time-space motion dynamics more efficiently with age and locomotor experience. This emerging capacity may be vital to enable preparedness for upcoming events and to be able to navigate in a changing environment. Little is known about brain changes that support the development of prospective control and about processes, such as preterm birth, that may compromise it. As a function of perception of visual motion, this paper will describe behavioral and brain studies with young infants investigating the development of visual perception for prospective control. By means of the three visual motion paradigms of occlusion, looming, and optic flow, our research shows the importance of including behavioral data when studying the neural correlates of prospective control.
authors.affiliation: Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway.
authors.forename: Seth B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Agyei
authors.affiliation: Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway.
authors.forename: F R Ruud
authors.initials: FR
authors.lastname: van der Weel
authors.affiliation: Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway.
authors.forename: Audrey L H
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: van der Meer
keywords: brain and behavioral development; optic flow processing; perceptual information for action; prospective control; visual motion perception