Journal
DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE
Volume 15, Issue 1, Pages 35-42Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01095.x
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- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci [0951489] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- NICHD NIH HHS [P01 HD064653, P01 HD064653-01] Funding Source: Medline
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Recent work implicates a link between action control systems and action understanding. In this study, we investigated the role of the motor system in the development of visual anticipation of others actions. Twelve-month-olds engaged in behavioral and observation tasks. Containment activity, infants spontaneous engagement in producing containment actions; and gaze latency, how quickly they shifted gaze to the goal object of anothers containment actions, were measured. Findings revealed a positive relationship: infants who received the behavior task first evidenced a strong correlation between their own actions and their subsequent gaze latency of anothers actions. Learning over the course of trials was not evident. These findings demonstrate a direct influence of the motor system on online visual attention to others actions early in development.
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