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Recognizing the role of perception in action at 6 months
Article first published online: 18 AUG 2008
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00741.x
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Luo, Y. and Johnson, S. C. (2009), Recognizing the role of perception in action at 6 months. Developmental Science, 12: 142–149. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00741.x
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- Issue published online: 22 DEC 2008
- Article first published online: 18 AUG 2008
- Received: 28 June 2007 Accepted: 7 January 2008
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Abstract
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.