Journal
COGNITION
Volume 121, Issue 1, Pages 12-21Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.05.008
Keywords
Collaboration; Shared intentionality; Infant social cognition; Action perception; Visual habituation; Cooperation; Joint action
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- NICHD NIH HHS [R01 HD35707A, R01 HD035707, R01 HD035707-10] Funding Source: Medline
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Collaboration is fundamental to our daily lives, yet little is known about how humans come to understand these activities. The present research was conducted to fill this void by using a novel visual habituation paradigm to investigate infants' understanding of the collaborative-goal structure of collaborative action. The findings of the three experiments reported here suggest that 14-month-old infants understand that the actions of collaborative partners are complementary and critical to the attainment of a common collaborative goal. Importantly, 14-month-olds do not interpret the actions of two individuals in terms of a collaborative goal when their actions are not causally related. The implications of our findings for theories of collaboration and folk psychology are discussed. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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