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Meyer, Marlene; van Schaik, Johanna E.; Poli, Francesco; Hunnius, Sabine – Developmental Science, 2023
When teaching infants new actions, parents tend to modify their movements. Infants prefer these infant-directed actions (IDAs) over adult-directed actions and learn well from them. Yet, it remains unclear "how" parents' action modulations capture infants' attention. Typically, making movements larger than usual is thought to draw…
Descriptors: Infants, Attention Control, Prediction, Brain Hemisphere Functions