Action experience alters 3-month-old infants' perception of others' actions Export

@article{Sommerville:2005, abstract = {An intervention facilitated 3-month-old infants' apprehension of objects either prior to (reach first), or after (watch first) viewing another person grasp similar objects in a visual habituation procedure. Action experience facilitated action perception: reach-first infants focused on the relation between the actor and her goal, but watch-first infants did not. Infants' sensitivity to the actor's goal was correlated with their engagement in object-directed contact with the toys. These findings indicate that infants can rapidly form goal-based action representations and suggest a developmental link between infants' goal directed actions and their ability to detect goals in the actions of others.}, address = {Department of Psychology and Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA. sommej@u.washington.edu}, author = {Sommerville, J. and Woodward, A. and Needham, A.}, citeulike-article-id = {625664}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2004.07.004}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0010027704001507}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15833301}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=15833301}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://www.bsos.umd.edu/psyc/woodward/lab/recent_publications.html}, doi = {10.1016/j.cognition.2004.07.004}, issn = {00100277}, journal = {Cognition}, keywords = {action, affordance, development, learning, perception, phd}, month = {May}, number = {1}, pages = {B1--B11}, posted-at = {2009-07-09 10:11:36}, priority = {4}, title = {Action experience alters 3-month-old infants' perception of others' actions}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2004.07.004}, volume = {96}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - Sommerville:2005 L3 - citeulike-article-id:625664 N2 - An intervention facilitated 3-month-old infants' apprehension of objects either prior to (reach first), or after (watch first) viewing another person grasp similar objects in a visual habituation procedure. Action experience facilitated action perception: reach-first infants focused on the relation between the actor and her goal, but watch-first infants did not. Infants' sensitivity to the actor's goal was correlated with their engagement in object-directed contact with the toys. These findings indicate that infants can rapidly form goal-based action representations and suggest a developmental link between infants' goal directed actions and their ability to detect goals in the actions of others. IS - 1 JF - Cognition SN - 00100277 AD - Department of Psychology and Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA. sommej@u.washington.edu EP - B11 TI - Action experience alters 3-month-old infants' perception of others' actions VL - 96 SP - B1 KW - action KW - affordance KW - development KW - learning KW - perception KW - phd AU - Sommerville, J AU - Woodward, A AU - Needham, A PY - 2005/05// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2004.07.004 ER -