First-person action experience reveals sensitivity to action efficiency in prereaching infants

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 46, 2013, Pages 18728-18733

  Skerry, Amy E ^a   Carey, Susan E ^a   Spelke, Elizabeth S ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Action representation; Conceptual development; Goal inference; Motor cognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFANT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY TRAINING;

ACTION REPRESENTATION; CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT; GOAL INFERENCE; MOTOR COGNITION;

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); GOALS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84887427724     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1312322110     Document Type: Article

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