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Shimizu, Y. Alpha; Johnson, Susan C. – Developmental Science, 2004
How do infants identify the psychological actors in their environments? Three groups of 12-month-old infants were tested for their willingness to encode a simple approach behavior as goal-directed as a function of whether it was performed by (1) a human hand, (2) a morphologically unfamiliar green object that interacted with a confederate and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Neonates, Identification, Goal Orientation