Observed Human Actions, and Not Mechanical Actions, Induce Searching Errors in Infants

المؤلفون المشاركون

Matsunaka, Reiko
Hiraki, Kazuo
Itakura, Shoji
Moriguchi, Yusuke

المصدر

Child Development Research

العدد

المجلد 2012، العدد 2012 (31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2012)، ص ص. 1-5، 5ص.

الناشر

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

تاريخ النشر

2012-06-25

دولة النشر

مصر

عدد الصفحات

5

التخصصات الرئيسية

العلوم الاجتماعية (متداخلة التخصصات)

الملخص EN

Recent neurophysiological studies have shown that several human brain regions involved in executing actions are activated by merely observing such actions via a human, and not by a mechanical hand.

At a behavioral level, observing a human’s movements, but not those of a robot, significantly interferes with ongoing executed movements.

However, it is unclear whether the biological tuning in the observation/execution matching system are functional during infancy.

The present study examines whether a human’s actions, and not a mechanical action, influence infants’ execution of the same actions due to the observation/execution matching system.

Twelve-month-old infants were given a searching task.

In the tasks, infants observed an object hidden at location A, after which either a human hand (human condition) or a mechanical one (mechanical condition) searched the object correctly.

Next, the object was hidden at location B and infants were allowed to search the object.

We examined whether infants searched the object at location B correctly.

The results revealed that infants in the human condition were more likely to search location A than those in the mechanical condition.

Moreover, the results suggested that infants’ searching behaviors were affected by their observations of the same actions by a human, but not a mechanical hand.

Thus, it may be concluded that the observation/execution matching system may be biologically tuned during infancy.

نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)

Moriguchi, Yusuke& Matsunaka, Reiko& Itakura, Shoji& Hiraki, Kazuo. 2012. Observed Human Actions, and Not Mechanical Actions, Induce Searching Errors in Infants. Child Development Research،Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-5.
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نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)

Moriguchi, Yusuke…[et al.]. Observed Human Actions, and Not Mechanical Actions, Induce Searching Errors in Infants. Child Development Research No. 2012 (2012), pp.1-5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-473738

نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)

Moriguchi, Yusuke& Matsunaka, Reiko& Itakura, Shoji& Hiraki, Kazuo. Observed Human Actions, and Not Mechanical Actions, Induce Searching Errors in Infants. Child Development Research. 2012. Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-473738

نوع البيانات

مقالات

لغة النص

الإنجليزية

الملاحظات

Includes bibliographical references

رقم السجل

BIM-473738