Human Action Perception across Development
Human Action Perception across Development
What do we pay attention to when we view other people’s actions? How does such attention change over the course of development? In this chapter, we will discuss developmental changes in infants’ attention during action perception—changes that shift their attention from being initially undifferentiated to being selectively focused. This perceptual tuning process is tied to infants’ development of motor abilities and also supports a functional analysis of other people’s behavior. Importantly, attention during action perception following the tuning is not rigid and fixed, but is instead selective and flexible. These attributes aid in predicting other people’s actions and action outcomes, thereby increasing the power and efficiency of action perception for infants’ broader social-cognitive development.
Keywords: Infant social perception, Action perception, Perceptual tuning
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