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ERIC Number: EJ849442
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009-Jan
Pages: 8
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1363-755X
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Recognizing the Role of Perception in Action at 6 Months
Luo, Yuyan; Johnson, Susan C.
Developmental Science, v12 n1 p142-149 Jan 2009
The present research examined whether infants as young as 6 months of age would consider what objects a human agent could perceive when interpreting her actions on the objects. In two experiments, the infants took the agent's actions of repeatedly reaching for and grasping one of two possible objects as suggesting her preference for that object only when the agent could detect both objects, not when the agent's perceptual access to the second object was absent, either because a large screen hid the object from the agent (Experiment 1), or because the agent sat with her back toward the object (Experiment 2). These results suggest that young infants recognize the role of perception in constraining an agent's goal-actions.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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