and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,

biological motion processing in young infants. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(9), 2521-2532. These results suggest: • the youngest age group responded only to the larger social stimulus- looking behavior did not vary by the object the adult was holding • the middle and older age groups attended to the object nested within the larger social stimulus- clear preference to the adult holding a social (baby) compared to a non-social (books) object These differences could reflect: • a global-to-local shift in visual scanning: older infants are more likely to scan the internal elements of the figures • greater social awareness: older infants are more likely recognize that an adult holding baby as compared to books implies a more interesting pattern of interactio