Intentional action processing across the transition to crawling: Does the experience of self-locomotion impact infants' understanding of intentional actions?

ABSTRACT: Motor developmental milestones in infancy, such as the transition to self-locomotion, have cascading implications for infants' social and cognitive development. The current studies aimed to add to this literature by exploring whether and how crawling experience impacts a key social-cognitive milestone achieved in infancy: the development of intentional action understanding. Study 1 used a cross-sectional, age-held-constant design to examine whether locomotor (n = 36) and prelocomotor (n = 36) infants differ in their ability to process a failed intentional reaching action. Study 2 (n = 124) further probed this question by assessing how variability in locomotor infants' experience maps onto variability in their failed intentional action understanding. Both studies also assessed infants' tend

SUBMITTER: Brandone AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7704532 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature