Six-and-a-half-month-old children positively attribute goals to human action and to humanoid-robot motion
Six-and-a-half-month-old children positively attribute goals to human action and to humanoid-robot motion
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cogdev.2005.04.004
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发表时间：
2005-04-01
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Hiraki, K
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作者：
Kamewari, K;Kato, M;Hiraki, K
最近的婴幼儿研究表明，目标归因(对目标导向行动的理解)在婴儿期就出现了。我们考察了6.5个月大的婴儿是否将目标归因于动因，以及婴儿是否根据动因的类型改变了对目标定向行动的解释。我们使用视觉习惯化范式进行了三个实验。在实验1中，我们调查了6.5个月大的婴儿是否将目标归因于人类行为。在实验2中，我们考察了6.5个月大的婴儿是否将目标归因于类人机器人的运动。在实验3中，我们测试了婴儿是否将目标归因于移动的盒子。实验3中使用的试剂没有人类的外观。三个实验的结果表明，婴儿将目标积极归因于人类动作(实验1)和类人运动(实验2)，但不归因于移动的盒子(实验3)。这些结果表明，6.5月龄婴儿倾向于用目标来解释某些行为，他们对这些行为的推理是基于复杂的目的论表征，而且代理人的类人外观可能会影响早期的目的论推理。(C)2005年，爱思唯尔公司出版。
Recent infant studies indicate that goal attribution (understanding of goal-directed action) is present very early in infancy. We examined whether 6.5-month-olds attribute goals to agents and whether infants change the interpretation of goal-directed action according to the kind of agent. We conducted three experiments using the visual habituation paradigm. In Experiment 1, we investigated whether 6.5-month-olds attribute goals to human action. In Experiment 2, we investigated whether 6.5-month-olds attribute goals to humanoid-robot motion. In Experiment 3, we tested whether infants attribute goals to a moving box. The agent used in Experiment 3 had no human-like appearance. The results of the three experiments show that infants positively attribute goals to both human action (Experiment 1) and humanoid motion (Experiment 2) but not to a moving box (Experiment 3). These results suggest that 6.5-month-olds tend to interpret certain actions in terms of goals, their reasoning about these actions is based on a sophisticated teleological representation, and that human-like appearance of agents may influence this teleological reasoning in early infancy. (c) 2005 Published by Elsevier Inc.