Means-End Behavior in Young Infants: The Interplay of Action Perception and Action Production

Infancy : the Official Journal of the International Society on Infant Studies
Moritz M DaumGisa Aschersleben

Abstract

In 2 experiments, the interplay of action perception and action production was investigated in 6-month-old infants. In Experiment 1, infants received 2 versions of a means-end task in counterbalanced order. In the action perception version, a preferential looking paradigm in which infants were shown an actor performing means-end behavior with an expected and an unexpected outcome was used. In the action production version, infants had to pull a cloth to receive a toy. In Experiment 2, infants' ability to perform the action production task with a cloth was compared to their ability to perform the action production task with a less flexible board. Finally, Experiment 3 was designed to control for alternative low-level explanations of the differences in the looking times toward the final states presented in Experiment 1 by only presenting the final states of the action perception task without showing the initial action sequence. Results obtained in Experiment 1 showed that in the action perception task, infants discriminated between the expected and the unexpected outcome. This perceptual ability was independent of their actual competence in executing means- end behavior in the action production task. Experiment 2 showed no differ...Continue Reading

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Aug 31, 2020·Child Development·Miriam Beisert, Moritz M Daum
Oct 21, 2009·Developmental Science·Moritz M DaumGisa Aschersleben
Apr 9, 2014·Experimental Brain Research·Áine Ní Choisdealbha, Vincent Reid
Sep 29, 2015·The British Journal of Developmental Psychology·Áine Ní ChoisdealbhaVincent Reid
Jul 25, 2015·The British Journal of Developmental Psychology·Ty W Boyer, Bennett I Bertenthal
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