Shifting goals: Effects of active and observational experience on infants' understanding of higher order goals

Action-perception links have been argued to support the emergence of action understanding, but their role in infants' perception of distal goals has not been fully investigated. The current experiments address this issue. During the development of means-end actions, infants shift their focus fr...

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Main Authors: Sarah A Gerson, Neha eMahajan, Jessica eSommerville, Lauren eMatz, Amanda L Woodward
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00310/full