Infants infer intentions from prosody

Sakkalou, Elena; Gattis, Merideth

doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2011.08.003

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“…A Wilcoxon paired-samples test did not indicate that infants produce significantly more intentional actions (M = 5.41, SD = 1.82) than accidental actions (M = 5.05, SD = 1.97), z = .71, p = .48. These group-level results were consistent with those of Sakkalou and Gattis (2012).…”

Section: Vocal-cued Task Performancesupporting

confidence: 93%

“…During the infant response period, the end result occurred only if infants produced the intentional action but regardless of whether infants also produced the accidental action (i.e., the end result followed when infants performed the intentional action only or performed both actions together). Following Sakkalou and Gattis (2012), accidental vocalizations had a rising contour and intentional vocalizations had a falling contour expressed through the Greek words ''Ochi'' and ''Nato.'' These foreign language words were novel, and therefore meaningless, to the participants.…”

Section: Vocal-cued Taskmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…and the corresponding prosody of intentions or accidents (Carpenter et al, 1998). In a more recent study, the experimenter used novel words marking intentions versus accidents with prosody alone (Sakkalou & Gattis, 2012). In both studies infants copied intentional actions more than accidental actions, and in both studies the authors concluded that imitation is a selective process based on inferences about the goals of others.…”

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confidence: 96%

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Infants show stability of goal-directed imitation

Sakkalou

Ellis-Davies

Fowler

et al. 2013

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

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Previous studies have reported that infants selectively reproduce observed actions and have argued that this selectivity reflects understanding of intentions and goals, or goal-directed imitation. We reasoned that if selective imitation of goal-directed actions reflects understanding of intentions, infants should demonstrate stability across perceptually and causally dissimilar imitation tasks. To this end, we employed a longitudinal within-participants design to compare the performance of 37 infants on two imitation tasks, with one administered at 13 months and one administered at 14 months. Infants who selectively imitated goal-directed actions in an object-cued task at 13 months also selectively imitated goal-directed actions in a vocal-cued task at 14 months. We conclude that goal-directed imitation reflects a general ability to interpret behavior in terms of mental states.

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Section: Vocal-cued Task Performancesupporting

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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

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“…Second, 1-year-olds are very good imitators (Carpenter, Akhtar, & Tomasello, 1998;Hilbrink, Sakkalou, Ellis-Davies, Fowler, & Gattis, 2013;Sakkalou & Gattis, 2012), and parents are one group of people they may have a good chance to imitate in day to day life.…”

Section: One-year-olds' and Parents' Creativitymentioning

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“…Thus through exposure to parents' daily DT, toddlers may imitate an overall exploration style -one high, medium, or low on DT. This makes sense because 1-year-olds are keen social learners who copy others with ease (Carpenter et al, 1998;Hilbrink et al, 2013;Sakkalou & Gattis, 2012).…”

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Individual differences and age-related changes in divergent thinking in toddlers and preschoolers.

Berg¹,

Hoicka²

2014

Developmental Psychology

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Divergent thinking shows the ability to search for new ideas, which is an important factor contributing to innovation and problem solving. Current divergent thinking tests allow researchers to study children’s divergent thinking from the age of 3 years on. This article presents the first measure of divergent thinking that can be used with children as young as 2 years. The Unusual Box test is a nonverbal and nonimitative test in which children play individually with a novel toy and novel objects. Divergent thinking is scored as the number of different actions performed. Study 1 shows that the Unusual Box test is a valid measure of divergent thinking as it correlates with standard measures of divergent thinking in 3- and 4-year-olds. Study 2 indicates that the test can be used with 2-year-olds, as it shows high test–retest reliability, demonstrating that 2-year-olds can think divergently. Across both studies, individual differences and age-related changes were found, indicating that some children are better at divergent thinking than others and that children’s divergent thinking increases with age. This test will allow researchers to gain insight into the early emergence of divergent thinking.

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Phrase-Final Words in Greek Storytelling Speech: A Study on the Effect of a Culturally-Specific Prosodic Feature on Short-Term Memory

Loutrari

Tselekidou

Proios

2018

J Psycholinguist Res

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Prosodic patterns of speech appear to make a critical contribution to memory-related processing. We considered the case of a previously unexplored prosodic feature of Greek storytelling and its effect on free recall in thirty typically developing children between the ages of 10 and 12 years, using short ecologically valid auditory stimuli. The combination of a falling pitch contour and, more notably, extensive final-syllable vowel lengthening, which gives rise to the prosodic feature in question, led to statistically significantly higher performance in comparison to neutral phrase-final prosody. Number of syllables in target words did not reveal substantial difference in performance. The current study presents a previously undocumented culturally-specific prosodic pattern and its effect on short-term memory.

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Infants infer intentions from prosody

Cited by 34 publications

References 36 publications

Infants show stability of goal-directed imitation

Infants show stability of goal-directed imitation

Individual differences and age-related changes in divergent thinking in toddlers and preschoolers.

Phrase-Final Words in Greek Storytelling Speech: A Study on the Effect of a Culturally-Specific Prosodic Feature on Short-Term Memory

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