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. 2024 Sep-Oct;95(5):1797-1810.
doi: 10.1111/cdev.14102. Epub 2024 Apr 13.

This is me! Neural correlates of self-recognition in 6- to 8-month-old infants

Silvia Rigato  1 , Rita De Sepulveda  1 , Eleanor Richardson  1 , Maria Laura Filippetti  1
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This is me! Neural correlates of self-recognition in 6- to 8-month-old infants

Silvia Rigato et al. Child Dev. 2024 Sep-Oct.
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Abstract

Historically, evidence of self-recognition in development has been associated with the "rouge test"; however, this has been often criticized for providing a reductionist picture of self-conscious behavior. With two event-related potential (ERP) experiments, this study investigated the origin of self-recognition. Six- to eight-month-old infants (42 males and 35 females, predominately White, tested in the UK in 2022-2023) were presented with images of their face, another peer's face, and their mother's face (N = 38, Exp.1), and images of their own face morphed into another peer's face (N = 39, Exp.2). Results showed an enhanced P100 in infants' ERP response to their own face compared to others' faces (Exp.1 only), suggesting the presence of an enhanced attentional mechanism to one own's face as early as 6 months.

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