| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 917234 | Infant Behavior and Development | 2014 | 8 Pages |
•Infants and adults anticipatory gaze shifts were measured.•Stimuli depicted self-propelled objects and human goal directed actions.•Six-month-olds anticipate self-propelled balls but not human actions.•Direct matching mediates the ability to anticipate human actions.•Extrapolation mediates the ability to anticipate self-propelled objects.
Why are infants able to anticipate occlusion events and other people's actions but not the movement of self-propelled objects? This study investigated infant and adult anticipatory gaze shifts during observation of self-propelled objects and human goal-directed actions. Six-month-old infants anticipated self-propelled balls but not human actions. This demonstrates that different processes mediate the ability to anticipate human actions (direct matching) versus self-propelled objects (extrapolation).
