The joint role of trained, untrained, and observed actions at the origins of goal recognition

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 94-104

  Gerson, Sarah A ^a   Woodward, Amanda L ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Action understanding; Active experience; Cognitive development; Infancy; Observational experience; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE EXPERIENCE; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAUCASIAN; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INFANT; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; OBSERVATIONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL COGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION UNDERSTANDING; ACTIVE EXPERIENCE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; INFANCY; OBSERVATIONAL EXPERIENCE; SOCIAL COGNITION;

ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; GOALS; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; INFANT; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84893000802     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2013.12.013     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Barresi J., Moore C. Intentional relations and social understanding. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1996, 19:107-122. 10.1017/S0140525X00041790.
2. Bertenthal B.I., Campos J.J., Barrett K.C. Self-produced locomotion: An organizer of emotional, cognitive, and social development in infancy. Continuities and discontinuities in development 1984, 175-210. Springer, US. 10.1007/978-1-4613-2725-7_8. R.N. Emde, R.J. Harmon (Eds.).
3. Brune C.W., Woodward A.L. Social cognition and social responsiveness in 10-month-old infants. Journal of Cognition and Development 2007, 8:133-158. 10.1080/15248370701202331.
4. Calvo-Merino B., Glaser D.E., Grèzes J., Passingham R.E., Haggard P. Action observation and acquired motor skills: An FMRI study with expert dancers. Cerebral Cortex 2005, 15:1243-1249. 10.1093/cercor/bhi007.
5. Campos J.J., Anderson D.I., Barbu-Roth M.A., Hubbard E.M., Hertenstein M.J., Witherington D. Travel broadens the mind. Infancy 2000, 1:149-219. 10.1207/S15327078IN0102_1.
6. Campos J.J., Bertenthal B.I., Kermoian R. Early experience and emotional development: The emergence of wariness of heights. Psychological Science 1992, 3:61-64. 10.1111/j.1467-9280.1992.tb00259.x.
7. Cannon E.N., Woodward A.L., Gredeback G., von Hofsten C., Turek C. Action production influences 12-month-old infants' attention to others' actions. Developmental Science 2011, 15:35-42. 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01095.x.
8. Casstevens, R. M. (2007). jHab: Java Habituation Software (version 1.0.0). [Computer Software]. Chevy Chase, MD.
9. Chen Z., Sanchez R.P., Campbell T. From beyond to within their grasp: The rudiments of analogical problem solving in 10- and 13-month-olds. Developmental Psychology 1997, 33:790-801. 10.1037/0012-1649.33.5.790.
10. Childers J.B. The structural alignment and comparison of events in verb acquisition. Proceedings of the 30th annual cognitive science society 2008, 681-686.
11. Cohen J., Cohen P., West S.G., Aiken L.S. Applied multiple regression/correlation analysis for the behavioral sciences 2003, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers, Mahwah, NJ, US.
12. Decety J., Sommerville J.A. Shared representations between self and other: A social cognitive neuroscience view. Trends in Cognitive Science 2003, 7:527-533. 10.1016/j.tics.2003.10.004.
13. Elsner B., Aschersleben G. Do I get what you get? Learning about the effects of self-performed and observed actions in infancy. Consciousness and Cognition 2003, 12:732-751. 10.1016/S1053-8100(03)00073-4.
14. Falck-Ytter T., Gredeback G., von Hofsten C. Infants predict other people's action goals. Nature Neuroscience 2006, 9:878-879. 10.1038/nn1729.
15. Fattori P., Breveglieri R., Bosco A., Marzocchi N., Esseily R., Fagard J. Observational learning of tool-use in human infants and macaques. 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference of Intelligent Robots and Systems Workshop on Grasp and Task Learning by Imitation 2008.
16. Ferry A., Hespos S.J., Waxman S. Language facilitates category formation in 3-month-old infants. Child Development 2010, 81:472-479.
17. Ferry A., Hespos S.J., Gentner D. Prelinguistic relational concepts: Investigating the origins of anaolgy in infants 2014, (submitted for publication).
18. Gallese V., Goldman A. Mirror neurons and the simulation theory of mind-reading. Trends in Cognitive Science 1998, 2:493-501. 10.1016/S1364-6613(98)01262-5.
19. Gentner D. Metaphor as structure mapping: The relational shift. Child Development 1988, 59:47-59. 10.2307/1130388.
20. Gentner D. Why we're so smart. Language in mind: Advances in the study of language and thought 2003, 195-235. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, US. D. Gentner, S. Goldin-Meadow (Eds.).
21. Gerson S.A. Sharing and comparing: How comparing shared goals broadens goal understanding in development. Child Development Perspectives 2014, (submitted for publication). 10.1111/cdep.12056.
22. Gentner D., Medina J. Similarity and the development of rules. Cognition 1998, 65:263-297. 10.1016/S0010-0277(98)00002-X.
23. Gerson S., Woodward A.L. Building intentional action knowledge with one's hands. Neo-constructivism 2010, 295-313. Oxford University Press, New York, NY. S.P. Johnson (Ed.).
24. Gerson S., Woodward A.L. A claw is like my hand: Comparison supports goal analysis in infants. Cognition 2012, 122:181-192. 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.10.014.
25. Gerson S.A., Woodward A.L. Learning from their own actions: The unique effects of producing actions on infants' action understanding. Child Development 2014, (in press).
26. Gredeback G., Kochukhova O. Goal anticipation during action observation is influenced by synonymous action capabilities, a puzzling developmental study. Experimental Brain Research 2010, 202:493-497. 10.1007/s00221-009-2138-1.
27. Grezes J., Decety J. Functional anatomy of execution, mental simulation, observation, and verb generation of actions: A meta-analysis. Human Brain Mapping 2001, 12:1-19. 10.1002/1097-0193(200101)12:1<1::AID-HBM10>3.0.CO;2-V.
28. Hayes A.F., Matthes J. Computational procedures for probing interactions in OLS and logistic regression: SPSS and SAS implementations. Behavior Research Methods 2009, 41:924-936. 10.3758/BRM.41.3.924.
29. Karasik L.B., Tamis-LeMonda C.S., Adolph K.E. Transition from crawling to walking and infants' actions with objects and people. Child Development 2011, 82:1199-1209. 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01595.x.
30. Lepage J.F., Theoret H. The mirror neuron system: Grasping others' actions from birth?. Developmental Science 2006, 10:513-523. 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00631.x.
31. Libertus K., Needham A. Teach to reach: The effects of active versus passive reaching experiences on action and perception. Vision Research 2010, 50:2750-2757. 10.1016/j.visres.2010.09.001.
32. Libertus K., Needham A. Reaching experience increases face preference in 3-month-old infants. Developmental Science 2011, 14:1355-1364. 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01084.x.
33. Lobo M.A., Galloway J.C. The onset of reaching significantly impacts how infants explore both objects and their bodies. Infant Behavior & Development 2013, 36:14-24. 10.1016/j.infbeh.2012.09.003.
34. Mangold P. Interact [computer software] 1998, Mangold International, Arnstorf, Germany.
35. Marshall P.J., Meltzoff A.N. Neural mirroring systems: Exploring the EEG mu rhythm in human infancy. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 2011, 1:110-123. 10.1016/j.dcn.2010.09.001.
36. Möhring W., Frick A. Touching Up Mental Rotation: Effects of Manual Experience on 6-Month-Old Infants' Mental Object Rotation. Child Development 2013, 10.1111/cdev.12065.
37. Moll H., Carpenter M., Tomasello M. Fourteen-month-olds know what others experience only in joint engagement. Developmental Science 2007, 10:826-835. 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00615.x.
38. Moll H., Tomasello M. How 14- and 18-month-olds know what others have experienced. Developmental Psychology 2007, 43:309-317. 10.1037/0012-1649.43.2.309.
39. Needham A., Barrett T., Peterman K. A pick-me-up for infants' exploratory skills: Early simulated experiences reaching for objects using 'sticky mittens' enhances young infants' object exploration skills. Infant Behavior and Development 2002, 25:279-295. 10.1016/S0163-6383(02)00097-8.
40. Oakes L.M., Baumgartner H.A. Manual object exploration and learning about object features in human infants. Proceedings from IEEE international conference on development of learning and epigenetic robotics 2012, November, 1-6. 10.1109/DevLrn.2012.6400819.
41. Paulus M., Hunnius S., van Elk M., Bekkering H. How learning to shake a rattle affects 8-month-old infants' perception of the rattle's sound: Electrophysiological evidence for action-effect binding in infancy. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 2012, 2:90-96. 10.1016/j.dcn.2011.05.006.
42. Paulus M., Hunnius S., Bekkering H. Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying social learning in infancy: infants' neural processing of the effects of others' actions. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 2012, 10.1093/scan/nss065.
43. Piaget J. The construction of reality in the child 1954, Basic Books, Inc., New York.
44. Pinto J. MacXhab (Version 1.3) 1994, Stanford, CA.
45. Rakison D.H., Krogh L. Does causal action facilitate causal perception in infants younger than 6 months of age?. Developmental Science 2011, 15:45-53. 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01096.x\.
46. Richland L.E., McDonough I.M. Learning by analogy: Discriminating between potential analogs. Contemporary Educational Psychology 2010, 35:28-43. 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2009.09.001.
47. Rittle-Johnson B., Star J.R. Does comparing solution methods facilitate conceptual and procedural knowledge? An experimental study on learning to solve equations. Journal of Educational Psychology 2007, 99:561. 10.1037/0022-0663.99.3.561.
48. Rizzolatti G., Craighero L. The mirror neuron system. Annual Review of Neuroscience 2004, 27:169-192. 10.1146/annurev.neuro.27.070203.144230.
49. Saby J.N., Marshall P.J., Meltzoff A.N. Neural correlates of being imitated: An EEG study in preverbal infants. Social Neuroscience 2012, 7:650-661. 10.1080/17470919.2012.691429.
50. Shimada S., Hiraki K. Infant's brain responses to live and televised action. NeuroImage 2006, 32:930-939. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.03.044.
51. Sommerville J.A., Blumenthal E.J., Venema K., Sage K.D. The body in action: The impact of self-produced action on infants' action perception and understanding. Early development of body representations 2011, 247-266. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. V. Slaughter, C. Brownell (Eds.).
52. Sommerville J.A., Hildebrand E., Crane C.C. Experience matters: The impact of doing versus watching on infants' subsequent perception of tool use events. Developmental Psychology 2008, 44:1249-1256. 10.1037/a0012296Sommerville.
53. Sommerville J.A., Woodward A.L. Pulling out the intentional structure of action: The relation between action processing and action production in infancy. Cognition 2005, 95:1-30. 10.1016/j.cognition.2003.12.004.
54. Sommerville J.A., Woodward A.L., Needham A. Action experience alters 3-month-old infants' perception of others' actions. Cognition 2005, 96:B1-B11. 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.07.004.
55. Southgate V., Johnson M.H., El Karoui I., Csibra G. Motor system activation reveals infants' on-line prediction of others' goals. Psychological Science 2010, 21:355-359. 10.1177/0956797610362058.
56. Southgate V., Johnson M.H., Osborne T., Csibra G. Predictive motor activation during action observation in human infants. Biology Letters 2009, 5:769-772. 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0474.
57. Tomasello M. The cultural origins of human cognition 1999, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
58. Vanderwert R.E., Fox N.A., Ferrari P.F. The mirror mechanism and mu rhythm in social development. Neuroscience letters 2012, 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.10.006.
59. van Elk M., van Schie H.T., Hunnius S., Bekkering H. You'll never crawl alone: Neurophysiological evidence for experience-dependent motor resonance in infancy. Neuroimage 2008, 43:808-814. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.07.057.
60. von Hofsten C. An action perspective on motor development. Trends in Cognitive Science 2004, 8:266-272. 10.1016/j.tics.2004.04.002.
61. Woodward A.L. Infants' ability to distinguish between purposeful and non-purposeful behaviors. Infant Behavior and Development 1999, 22:145-160. 10.1016/S0163-6383(99)00007-7.
62. Woodward A.L. Infants selectively encode the goal object of an actor's reach. Cognition 1998, 69:1-34. 10.1016/S0010-0277(98)00058-4.