TY  - JOUR
A1  - Adam, Maurits
A1  - Elsner, Birgit
T1  - Action effects foster 11-month-olds’ prediction of action goals for a non-human agent
JF  - Infant behavior & development : an international and interdisciplinary journal
N2  - 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.
KW  - Infancy
KW  - Eye tracking
KW  - Goal anticipation
KW  - Action effects
KW  - Agency cues
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2018.09.002
SN  - 0163-6383
SN  - 1879-0453
VL  - 53
SP  - 49
EP  - 55
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - New York
ER  -