Infants predict other people's action goals
- 18 June 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Neuroscience
- Vol. 9 (7), 878-879
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1729
Abstract
Do infants come to understand other people's actions through a mirror neuron system that maps an observed action onto motor representations of that action? We demonstrate that a specialized system for action perception guides proactive goal-directed eye movements in 12-month-old but not in 6-month-old infants, providing direct support for this view. The activation of this system requires observing an interaction between the hand of the agent and an object.Keywords
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