@article{AdamElsner2018, author = {Adam, Maurits and Elsner, Birgit}, title = {Action effects foster 11-month-olds' prediction of action goals for a non-human agent}, series = {Infant behavior \& development : an international and interdisciplinary journal}, volume = {53}, journal = {Infant behavior \& development : an international and interdisciplinary journal}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {New York}, issn = {0163-6383}, doi = {10.1016/j.infbeh.2018.09.002}, pages = {49 -- 55}, year = {2018}, abstract = {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.}, language = {en} }