Infants Understanding of Everyday Social Interactions: A Dual Process Account

Autor/inn/en	Gredeback, Gustaf; Melinder, Annika
Titel	Infants Understanding of Everyday Social Interactions: A Dual Process Account
Quelle	In: Cognition, 114 (2010) 2, S.197-206 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2009.09.004
Schlagwörter	Eye Movements; Familiarity; Infants; Nutrition; Observation; Cognitive Processes; Lighting; Goal Orientation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Augenbewegung; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Ernährung; Beobachtung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Beleuchtung; Zielorientierung; Zielvorstellung
Abstract	Six- and 12-month-old infant's eye movements were recorded as they observed feeding actions being performed in a rational or non-rational manner. Twelve-month-olds fixated the goal of these actions before the food arrived (anticipation); the latency of these gaze shifts being dependent (r=0.69) on infants life experience being feed. In addition, 6- and 12-month-olds dilated their pupil during observation of non-rational feeding actions. This effect could not be attributed to light differences or differences in familiarity, but was interpreted to reflect sympathetic-like activity and arousal caused by a violation of infant's expectations about rationality. We argue that evaluation of rationality requires less experience than anticipations of action goals, suggesting a dual process account of preverbal infants' everyday action understanding. (Contains 5 figures and 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10