Infants' Understanding and Production of Goal-Directed Actions in the Context of Social and Object-Related Interactions

• Main Author: Daniela Corbetta (auth)
• Other Authors: Jacqueline Fagard (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; motor development; Infancy; action understanding; motor experience; motor learning; social cognition; goal-directed actions; action anticipation; reaching; action consequences
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Since the discovery of mirror neurons, the study of human infant goal-directed actions and object manipulation has burgeoned into new and exciting research directions. A number of infant studies have begun emphasizing the social context of action to understand what infants can infer when looking at...