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Where Do Action Goals Come from? Evidence for Spontaneous Action–Effect Binding in Infants

One of the great questions in psychology concerns how we develop to become intentional agents. Ideomotor theory suggests that intentional actions depend on, and emerge from the automatic acquisition of bidirectional action–effect associations: perceiving an action–effect sequence creates an integrat...

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Autores principales: Verschoor, Stephan, Weidema, Maaike, Biro, Szilvia, Hommel, Bernhard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Research Foundation 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3125542/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21738512
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00201
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description One of the great questions in psychology concerns how we develop to become intentional agents. Ideomotor theory suggests that intentional actions depend on, and emerge from the automatic acquisition of bidirectional action–effect associations: perceiving an action–effect sequence creates an integrated representation that can be employed for action control in the opposite order, selecting an action by anticipating its effect. We provide first evidence for the spontaneous acquisition of bidirectional action–effect associations in 9- 12-, and 18-month-olds, suggesting that the mechanism underlying action–effect integration is in place at the latest around 9 months of age.
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spelling pubmed-31255422011-07-07 Where Do Action Goals Come from? Evidence for Spontaneous Action–Effect Binding in Infants Verschoor, Stephan Weidema, Maaike Biro, Szilvia Hommel, Bernhard Front Psychol Psychology One of the great questions in psychology concerns how we develop to become intentional agents. Ideomotor theory suggests that intentional actions depend on, and emerge from the automatic acquisition of bidirectional action–effect associations: perceiving an action–effect sequence creates an integrated representation that can be employed for action control in the opposite order, selecting an action by anticipating its effect. We provide first evidence for the spontaneous acquisition of bidirectional action–effect associations in 9- 12-, and 18-month-olds, suggesting that the mechanism underlying action–effect integration is in place at the latest around 9 months of age. Frontiers Research Foundation 2010-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC3125542/ /pubmed/21738512 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00201 Text en Copyright © 2010 Verschoor, Weidema, Biro and Hommel. http://www.frontiersin.org/licenseagreement This is an open-access article subject to an exclusive license agreement between the authors and the Frontiers Research Foundation, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited.
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Verschoor, Stephan
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Hommel, Bernhard
Where Do Action Goals Come from? Evidence for Spontaneous Action–Effect Binding in Infants
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title_sort where do action goals come from? evidence for spontaneous action–effect binding in infants
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3125542/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21738512
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