Determining and predicting specific intents in infancy

我的研究计划的总体目标是双重的。 首先，我的目标是开发一个模型的婴儿意图归因系统，结合早期检测的生命和认知过程，使婴儿能够识别，解释，预测，并从他人的有意行动学习。 其次，我的目标是使用这个模型来更充分地了解这些能力（或者，也许，这些能力的差异）在精神和发育障碍的情况下（即，孤独症、抑郁症和精神病）和密切相关的物种（即，猿、猴）。 在这个框架内，我以前曾集中研究婴儿识别目标的一般能力。我在这里建议扩展这些方法，以更好地理解基本的、潜在的能力和机制。

The overarching goal of my research program is two-fold. First, I aim to develop a model of the infant intention-attribution system that incorporates the early detection of animacy and the cognitive processes that enable infants to recognize, interpret, predict, and learn from others' intentional actions. Second, I aim to use this model to more fully understand these abilities (or, perhaps, the differences in these abilities) in cases of mental and developmental disorders (i.e., autism, depression, and psychopathy) and in closely-related species (i.e., apes, monkeys). Within this framework, I have previously focused on investigations of infants' general ability to recognize goals. I propose here to extend the methods to better understand the fundamental, underlying abilities and mechanisms.