Journal
COGNITION
Volume 96, Issue 1, Pages B1-B11Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.07.004
Keywords
action/perception; intentional structure; infant cognitive
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- NICHD NIH HHS [R01 HD035707-06A2, R01 HD035707, R29-HD35707-01, R29 HD035707] Funding Source: Medline
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An intervention facilitated 3-month-old infants' apprehension of objects either prior to (reach first), or after (watch first) viewing another person grasp similar objects in a visual habituation procedure. Action experience facilitated action perception: reach-first infants focused on the relation between the actor and her goal, but watch-first infants did not. Infants' sensitivity to the actor's goal was correlated with their engagement in object-directed contact with the toys. These findings indicate that infants can rapidly form goal-based action representations and suggest a developmental link between infants' goal directed actions and their ability to detect goals in the actions of others. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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