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Actions Seen through Babies’ Eyes: A Dissociation between Looking Time and Predictive Gaze

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Title
Actions Seen through Babies’ Eyes: A Dissociation between Looking Time and Predictive Gaze
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Frontiers in Psychology, January 2012
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00370
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Moritz M. Daum, Manja Attig, Ronald Gunawan, Wolfgang Prinz, Gustaf Gredebäck

Abstract

In this study, we explored the relation of two different measures used to investigate infants' expectations about goal-directed actions. In previous studies, expectations about action outcomes have been either measured after the action has been terminated, that is post-hoc (e.g., via looking time) or during the action is being performed, that is online (e.g., via predictive gaze). Here, we directly compared both types of measures. Experiment 1 demonstrated a dissociation between looking time and predictive gaze for 9-month-olds. Looking time reflected identity-related expectations whereas predictive gaze did not. If at all, predictive gaze reflected location-related expectations. Experiment 2, including a wider age range, showed that the two measures remain dissociated over the first 3 years of life. It is only after the third birthday that the dissociation turns into an association, with both measures then reflecting identity-related expectations. We discuss these findings in terms of an early dissociation between two mechanisms for action expectation. We speculate that while post-hoc measures primarily tap ventral mechanisms for processing identity-related information (at least at a younger age), online measures primarily tap dorsal mechanisms for processing location-related information.

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Country Count As %
Germany 2 2%
Hungary 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 93 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 25%
Student > Bachelor 15 15%
Researcher 14 14%
Student > Master 10 10%
Professor 5 5%
Other 19 19%
Unknown 13 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 64 63%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 3%
Social Sciences 3 3%
Philosophy 3 3%
Other 8 8%
Unknown 15 15%
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