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. 2023 Aug;27(8):696-698.
doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.05.008. Epub 2023 Jun 13.

Infant action and cognition: what's at stake?

Mark S Blumberg  1 , Karen E Adolph  2
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Infant action and cognition: what's at stake?

Mark S Blumberg et al. Trends Cogn Sci. 2023 Aug.
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Keywords: core knowledge; developmental continuity; eye movements; infant cognition; motor cortex; visual system.

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Figure I.. Estimating the onset of M1 motor outflow in early human development.
Estimated days postconception plotted against event scale for humans, macaques, cats, and rats (data from translatingtime.org). Red-shaded region denotes 95% confidence intervals for human data. Three additional events are shown: birth (vertical bars), estimated onset of cortical delta rhythm (gray circles), and estimated onset of M1 motor outflow based on cortical stimulation studies (gray squares). Based on M1 onset in the non-human species, five possible onsets in humans are represented (arrows a–e). Inset: semi-log replotting of the data shown with four events from the visual system. Abbreviations: dLGN, dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus; SC, superior colliculus; V1, primary visual cortex; VEP, visual evoked potential.
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