Journal
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
Volume 22, Issue 3, Pages 310-322Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2007.01.002
Keywords
goal attribution; infancy; theory of mind
Funding
- NICHD NIH HHS [R01 HD038361-05, R01 HD038361, R01 HD038361-06] Funding Source: Medline
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Twelve-month-old infants attribute goals to both familiar, human agents and unfamiliar, non-human agents. They also attribute goal-directedness to both familiar actions and unfamiliar ones. Four conditions examined information 12-month-olds use to determine which actions of an unfamiliar agent are goal-directed. Infants who witnessed the agent interact contingently with a human confederate encoded the agent's actions as goal-directed; infants who saw a human confederate model an intentional stance toward the agent without the agent's participation, did not. Infants who witnessed the agent align itself with one of two potential targets before approaching that target encoded the approach as goal-directed; infants who did not observe the self-alignment did not encode the approach as goal-directed. A possible common underpinning of these two seemingly independent sources of information is discussed. (c) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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