Taking an action perspective on infant's object representations.

摘要: At around 4 months of age, infants predict the reappearance temporary occluded objects. Younger have not demonstrated such an ability, but they still benefit from experience; decreasing their reactive saccade latencies over successive passages earliest age tested (7 weeks age). We argue that prediction is all or none process either lack possess. Instead, ability to object dependent on numerous simultaneous factors, including occlusion duration, manner in which disappears, and previous experiences with similar events. Furthermore, we claim infants' understanding how objects move based prior Initially, extrapolate motion, because massive experience motion. But also rapidly adjust novel trajectories violate initial expectations. All these findings support a constructivist view representations.