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Action Prediction Allows Hypothesis Testing via Internal Forward Models at 6 Months of Age

We propose that action prediction provides a cornerstone in a learning process known as internal forward models. According to this suggestion infants’ predictions (looking to the mouth of someone moving a spoon upward) will moments later be validated or proven false (spoon was in fact directed towar...

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Autores principales: Gredebäck, Gustaf, Lindskog, Marcus, Juvrud, Joshua C., Green, Dorota, Marciszko, Carin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5857586/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29593600
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00290
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author Gredebäck, Gustaf
Lindskog, Marcus
Juvrud, Joshua C.
Green, Dorota
Marciszko, Carin
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description We propose that action prediction provides a cornerstone in a learning process known as internal forward models. According to this suggestion infants’ predictions (looking to the mouth of someone moving a spoon upward) will moments later be validated or proven false (spoon was in fact directed toward a bowl), information that is directly perceived as the distance between the predicted and actual goal. Using an individual difference approach we demonstrate that action prediction correlates with the tendency to react with surprise when social interactions are not acted out as expected (action evaluation). This association is demonstrated across tasks and in a large sample (n = 118) at 6 months of age. These results provide the first indication that infants might rely on internal forward models to structure their social world. Additional analysis, consistent with prior work and assumptions from embodied cognition, demonstrates that the latency of infants’ action predictions correlate with the infant’s own manual proficiency.
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spelling pubmed-58575862018-03-28 Action Prediction Allows Hypothesis Testing via Internal Forward Models at 6 Months of Age Gredebäck, Gustaf Lindskog, Marcus Juvrud, Joshua C. Green, Dorota Marciszko, Carin Front Psychol Psychology We propose that action prediction provides a cornerstone in a learning process known as internal forward models. According to this suggestion infants’ predictions (looking to the mouth of someone moving a spoon upward) will moments later be validated or proven false (spoon was in fact directed toward a bowl), information that is directly perceived as the distance between the predicted and actual goal. Using an individual difference approach we demonstrate that action prediction correlates with the tendency to react with surprise when social interactions are not acted out as expected (action evaluation). This association is demonstrated across tasks and in a large sample (n = 118) at 6 months of age. These results provide the first indication that infants might rely on internal forward models to structure their social world. Additional analysis, consistent with prior work and assumptions from embodied cognition, demonstrates that the latency of infants’ action predictions correlate with the infant’s own manual proficiency. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-03-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5857586/ /pubmed/29593600 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00290 Text en Copyright © 2018 Gredebäck, Lindskog, Juvrud, Green and Marciszko. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Gredebäck, Gustaf
Lindskog, Marcus
Juvrud, Joshua C.
Green, Dorota
Marciszko, Carin
Action Prediction Allows Hypothesis Testing via Internal Forward Models at 6 Months of Age
title Action Prediction Allows Hypothesis Testing via Internal Forward Models at 6 Months of Age
title_full Action Prediction Allows Hypothesis Testing via Internal Forward Models at 6 Months of Age
title_fullStr Action Prediction Allows Hypothesis Testing via Internal Forward Models at 6 Months of Age
title_full_unstemmed Action Prediction Allows Hypothesis Testing via Internal Forward Models at 6 Months of Age
title_short Action Prediction Allows Hypothesis Testing via Internal Forward Models at 6 Months of Age
title_sort action prediction allows hypothesis testing via internal forward models at 6 months of age
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5857586/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29593600
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00290
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