The role of behavioral cues in understanding goal-directed actions in infancy

Biro, S. and Csibra, Gergely and Gergely, G. (2007) The role of behavioral cues in understanding goal-directed actions in infancy. Progress in Brain Research 164 , pp. 303-322. ISSN 0079-6123.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0079-6123(07)64017-5

Abstract

Infants show very early sensitivity to a variety of behavioral cues (such as self-propulsion, equifinal movement, free variability, and situational adjustment of behavior) that can be exploited when identifying, predicting, and interpreting goal-directed actions of intentional agents. We compare and contrast recent alternative models concerning the role that different types of behavioral cues play in human infants’ early understanding of animacy, agency, and intentional action. We present new experimental evidence from violation of expectation studies to evaluate these alternative models on the nature of early development of understanding goal-directedness by human infants. Our results support the view that, while infants initially do not restrict goal attribution to behaviors of agents exhibiting self-propelled motion, they quickly develop such expectations.

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Item Type:	Article
School:	Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences
Depositing User:	Sarah Hall
Date Deposited:	15 Oct 2019 08:51
Last Modified:	02 Aug 2023 17:54
URI:	https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/29482

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