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Aguirre, Marie; Brun, Mélanie; Couderc, Auriane; Reboul, Anne; Senez, Philomène; Mascaro, Olivier – Cognitive Science, 2022
Anticipating the learning consequences of actions is crucial to plan efficient information seeking. Such a capacity is needed for learners to determine which actions are most likely to result in learning. Here, we tested the early ontogeny of the human capacity to anticipate the amount of learning gained from seeing. In study 1, we tested infants'…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Infants, Goal Orientation, Cognitive Processes
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Gumbsch, Christian; Adam, Maurits; Elsner, Birgit; Butz, Martin V. – Cognitive Science, 2021
From about 7 months of age onward, infants start to reliably fixate the goal of an observed action, such as a grasp, before the action is complete. The available research has identified a variety of factors that influence such goal-anticipatory gaze shifts, including the experience with the shown action events and familiarity with the observed…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Infants, Eye Movements, Cognitive Processes