Seven-Month-Old Infants Selectively Reproduce the Goals of Animate But Not Inanimate Agents
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Seven-Month-Old Infants Selectively Reproduce the Goals of Animate But Not Inanimate Agents.
We tested 7-month-old infants’ sensitivity to others’ goals in an imitation task, and assessed whether infants are as likely to imitate the goals of nonhuman agents as they are to imitate human goals. In the current studies, we used the paradigm developed by Hamlin et. a1 (in press) to test infants’ responses to human actions versus closely matched inanimate object motions. The experimental eve...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infancy
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1525-0008
DOI: 10.1080/15250000903265184