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- Title
The understanding of own and others’ actions during infancy: “You-like-Me” or “Me-like-You”?
- Authors
Hauf, Petra; Prinz, Wolfgang
- Abstract
Developmental psychologists assume that infants understand other persons’ actions after and because they understand their own (“Like-me” perspective). However, there is another possibility as well, namely that infants come to understand their own actions after and because they understand other persons’ actions (“Like-you” perspective). We reviewed infant research on the influence of perceived actions on self-performed actions as well as the reverse. Furthermore, we investigated the interplay between both aspects of action understanding by means of a sequence variation. The results show the impact of agentive experience for action understanding, but not the reverse. The question whether infants’ perceived and to-be-produced actions share common representations of the perceptual and the motor system is discussed in relation to its implications for the social making of minds.
- Subjects
DEVELOPMENTAL psychology; PERSPECTIVE (Art); BEHAVIORAL scientists; BEHAVIORAL assessment of infants; INFANT diseases; ALLERGY in infants
- Publication
Interaction Studies, 2005, Vol 6, Issue 3, p429
- ISSN
1572-0373
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/is.6.3.08hau