Action production influences 12-month-old infants' attention to others' actions |
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Authors: | Cannon Erin N Woodward Amanda L Gredebäck Gustaf von Hofsten Claes Turek Colleen |
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Affiliation: | Human Development Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. ecannon@umd.edu |
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Abstract: | Recent work implicates a link between action control systems and action understanding. In this study, we investigated the role of the motor system in the development of visual anticipation of others' actions. Twelve-month-olds engaged in behavioral and observation tasks. Containment activity, infants' spontaneous engagement in producing containment actions; and gaze latency, how quickly they shifted gaze to the goal object of another's containment actions, were measured. Findings revealed a positive relationship: infants who received the behavior task first evidenced a strong correlation between their own actions and their subsequent gaze latency of another's actions. Learning over the course of trials was not evident. These findings demonstrate a direct influence of the motor system on online visual attention to others' actions early in development. |
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