The early development of object knowledge: a study of infants' visual anticipations during action observationSabine Hunnius
Center for Cognition, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, P O Box 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Dev Psychol 46:446-54. 2010
..Together, these findings suggest that by 6 months of age, infants have acquired solid knowledge about objects and the actions associated with them...
- Facing threat: infants' and adults' visual scanning of faces with neutral, happy, sad, angry, and fearful emotional expressions
Sabine Hunnius
Center for Cognition, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, PO Box 9104, NL 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Cogn Emot 25:193-205. 2011
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- The role of frequency information and teleological reasoning in infants' and adults' action prediction
Markus Paulus
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Dev Psychol 47:976-83. 2011
..These results provide evidence, contrary to existing claims in the developmental literature, that frequency learning underlies action prediction in infancy, whereas teleological reasoning might gain importance later on in life...
- Imitation in infancy: rational or motor resonance?
Markus Paulus
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Child Dev 82:1047-57. 2011
..The results suggest that motor resonance plays a more central role in imitation in infancy than does a rational evaluation of the observed action...
Online prediction of others' actions: the contribution of the target object, action context and movement kinematicsJanny C Stapel
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, P O Box 9104, 6500 HE, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Psychol Res 76:434-45. 2012
..In sum, observers predict actions based on target objects and situational constraints, and they exploit subtle movement cues of the observed actor rather than the direct visual information about target objects and context...
- Action-effect binding by observational learning
Markus Paulus
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, P O Box 9104, 6500, HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Psychon Bull Rev 18:1022-8. 2011
..Our findings are discussed in the context of the idea that the acquisition of action-effect associations through observation is an important cognitive mechanism subserving the human ability for social learning...
- Joint action modulates motor system involvement during action observation in 3-year-olds
Marlene Meyer
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, P O Box 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Exp Brain Res 211:581-92. 2011
..This motor system involvement might play an important role for children's joint action performance...
- How learning to shake a rattle affects 8-month-old infants' perception of the rattle's sound: electrophysiological evidence for action-effect binding in infancy
Markus Paulus
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Dev Cogn Neurosci 2:90-6. 2012
..Our results provide therefore electrophysiological evidence that infants as young as 8 months are able to acquire bidirectional action-effect associations and parallel findings of audiovisual mirror neurons in the monkey brain...
- Volume completion in 4.5-month-old infants
Sven Vrins
Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, The Netherlands
Acta Psychol (Amst) 138:92-9. 2011
..5-month-old infants was found in a second experiment, again using a habituation paradigm, that measured perceived connectedness between two visually separated, self-occluding, three-dimensional objects...
- Bridging the gap between the other and me: the functional role of motor resonance and action effects in infants' imitation
Markus Paulus
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Dev Sci 14:901-10. 2011
..The results were in line with the proposed two-stage model of infants' imitative learning and suggest that motor resonance is necessary, but not sufficient for infants' imitative learning from others' actions and their effects...
- Can 14- to 20-month-old children learn that a tool serves multiple purposes? A developmental study on children's action goal prediction
Markus Paulus
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Vision Res 51:955-60. 2011
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- Motor activation during observation of unusual versus ordinary actions in infancy
Janny C Stapel
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, P O Box 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Soc Neurosci 5:451-60. 2010
..In sum, it appears that from early in life, the motor system is involved in making predictions about how an observed action will end...
- Higher-order action planning for individual and joint object manipulations
Marlene Meyer
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Exp Brain Res 225:579-88. 2013
..The rate of learning was similar in the two conditions, and participants transferred experience from individual to joint performance. Our results indicate similarity in mechanisms underlying individual and joint action sequence planning...
