Action effects foster 11-month-olds’ prediction of action goals for a non-human agent
- Action effects have been stated to be important for infants’ processing of goal-directed actions. In this study, 11-month-olds showed equally fast predictive gaze shifts to a claw’s action goal when the grasping action was presented either with three agency cues (self-propelled movement, equifinality of goal achievement and a salient action effect) or with only a salient action effect, but infants showed tracking gaze when the claw showed only self-propelled movement and equifinality of goal achievement. The results suggest that action effects, compared to purely kinematic cues, seem to be especially important for infants' online processing of goal-directed actions.
| Author details: | Maurits AdamORCiDGND, Birgit ElsnerORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2018.09.002 |
| ISSN: | 0163-6383 |
| ISSN: | 1879-0453 |
| Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30262180 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Infant behavior & development : an international and interdisciplinary journal |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Place of publishing: | New York |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2018/09/24 |
| Publication year: | 2018 |
| Release date: | 2021/07/08 |
| Tag: | Action effects; Agency cues; Eye tracking; Goal anticipation; Infancy |
| Volume: | 53 |
| Number of pages: | 7 |
| First page: | 49 |
| Last Page: | 55 |
| Funding institution: | German Research Foundation (DFG)German Research Foundation (DFG) [EL 253/5-2, EL 253/7-1] |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
| DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
