The Role of Motor Experience in Understanding Action Function: The Case of the Precision Grasp

Autor/inn/en	Loucks, Jeff; Sommerville, Jessica A.
Titel	The Role of Motor Experience in Understanding Action Function: The Case of the Precision Grasp
Quelle	In: Child Development, 83 (2012) 3, S.801-809 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01735.x
Schlagwörter	Role; Psychomotor Skills; Infants; Visual Perception; Dimensional Preference; Cognitive Processes; Habituation; Schemata (Cognition); Attention Control + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rollen; Psychomotorische Aktivität; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Cognition; Schema; Kognition; Aufmerksamkeitstest
Abstract	Recent evidence suggests adults and infants selectively attend to features of action, such as how a hand contacts an object. The current research investigated whether this bias stems from infants' processing of the functional consequences of grasps: understanding that different grasps afford different future actions. A habituation paradigm assessed 10-month-old infants' (N = 62) understanding of the functional consequences of precision and whole-hand grasps in others' actions, and infants' own precision grasping abilities were also assessed. The results indicate infants understood the functional consequences of another's grasp only if they could perform precision grasps themselves. These results highlight a previously unknown aspect of early action understanding, and deepen our understanding of the relation between motor experience and cognition. (As Provided).
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