Action experience alters 3-month-old infants' perception of others' actions
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Action experience alters 3-month-old infants' perception of others' actions.
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 acto...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognition
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.07.004