Infants' observation of others' actions: Brief movement-specific visual experience primes motor representations.

摘要: Recent research suggests that infants' observation of others' reaching actions activates corresponding motor representations which develop with their experience. Contralateral develops a few months later than ipsilateral reaching, and 9-month-old infants are less likely to map the these reaches representations. The goal current study was test whether brief familiarization contralateral is sufficient prime this developed representation increase likelihood its activation. In Experiment 1, were familiarized before they tested in an observational version A-not-B paradigm. A significant number searched incorrectly, suggesting primed 2, shared goals but not movements associated observed during testing, did show search bias. Taken together, results suggest movement-specific behaviour facilitates direct matching executed actions.