Goal attribution without agency cues: the perception of ‘pure reason’ in infancy

Csibra, Gergely; Gergely, György; Bı́ró, Szilvia; Koós, Orsolya; Brockbank, Margaret

doi:10.1016/s0010-0277(99)00039-6

Cited by 571 publications

(469 citation statements)

References 23 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

427

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Is it necessary? Evidence from developmental psychology suggests that it is not: upon perceiving the relative motions of geometrical stimuli, 6-month-old infants automatically ascribe goals to them [31,32]. The question is: why do they ascribe goals to moving geometrical stimuli, and not to a metal claw moving towards a standing inanimate target [26]?…”

Section: Motor Simulation Motor Intentions and Prior Intentionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The motor theory of social cognition: a critique

Jacob

Jeannerod

2005

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

380

256

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Section: Motor Simulation Motor Intentions and Prior Intentionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The motor theory of social cognition: a critique

Jacob

Jeannerod

2005

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

380

256

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…Older children and adults plan their search in steps. One possible reason younger children neglect visual information is that they focus more on the goal of an action than on the procedures (Gergely, Nasady et al 1995;Meltzoff 1995;Carpenter, Akhtar et al 1998;Woodward 1998;Csibra, Gergely et al 1999;Woodward and Somerville 2000;Woodward, Sommerville et al 2001;Carpenter, Call et al 2002;Woodward and Guajardo 2002;Csibra, Biro et al 2003;Sommerville and Woodward 2005). Still, by the age of six years, when children are asked to describe the path from one place to another, they focus on the goal and not on the route there (Plumert, Pick et al 1994).…”

Section: Action Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fitting objects into holes: On the development of spatial cognition skills.

Örnkloo¹,

Hofsten²

2007

Developmental Psychology

118

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The authors examined 14-to 26-month-old infants' understanding of the spatial relationships between objects and apertures in an object manipulation task. The task was to insert objects with various cross-sections (circular, square, rectangular, ellipsoid, and triangular) into fitting apertures. A successful solution required the infant to mentally rotate the object to be fit into the aperture and use that information to plan the action. The object was presented standing up in half of the trials; in the other half, it was lying down. The results showed that infants solved the problem consistently from age 22 months and that a successful solution was associated with appropriate preadjustments before the hand arrived with the block to the aperture. No sex differences were found.

show abstract

“…During the first year of life infants encode certain events as goal-directed, that is, they represent human actions (Sommerville & Woodward, 2005;Woodward, 1998;Woodward & Guajardo, 2002;Woodward & Sommerville, 2000;Woodward, Sommerville, & Guajardo, 2001) and certain object motions (Csibra, Biro, Koos, & Gergely, 2003;Csibra, Gergely, Biro, Koos, & Brockbank, 1999;Gergely, Nasady, Csibra, & Biro, 1995) with respect to the objects and outcomes to which they are directed, rather than in terms of their superficial perceptual properties. For instance, after watching an actor reach for and grasp a toy, infants show a stronger novelty response to a change in the actor's goal than a change in the spatial location or trajectory of her reach (Woodward, 1998).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

2005

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

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.

show abstract

Goal attribution without agency cues: the perception of ‘pure reason’ in infancy

Cited by 571 publications

References 23 publications

The motor theory of social cognition: a critique

The motor theory of social cognition: a critique

Fitting objects into holes: On the development of spatial cognition skills.

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

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About