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Goals and targets : a developmental puzzle about sensitivity to others’ actions

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Butterfill, Stephen A. (Stephen Andrew) (2021) Goals and targets : a developmental puzzle about sensitivity to others’ actions. Synthese, 198 . pp. 3969-3990. doi:10.1007/s11229-019-02214-9

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Abstract

Sensitivity to others’ actions is essential for social animals like humans and a fundamental requirement for any kind of social cognition. Unsurprisingly, it is present in humans from early in the first year of life. But what processes underpin infants’ sensitivity to others’ actions? Any attempt to answer this question must solve twin puzzles about the development of goal tracking. Why does some, but not all, of infants’ goal tracking appear to be limited by their abilities to represent the observed action motorically at the time it occurs? And why does their sensitivity to action sometimes manifest itself differently in dishabituation, pupil dilation and anticipatory looking? Solving these twin puzzles is critical for understanding humans’ earliest sensitivity to others’ actions. After introducing the puzzles, this paper argues that solving them may require identifying multiple, distinct processes for tracking the targets and goals of actions.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Child psychology, Infants -- Development -- Psychological aspects
Journal or Publication Title: Synthese
Publisher: Springer
ISSN: 0039-7857
Official Date: July 2021
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DateEvent
July 2021Published
17 May 2019Available
30 March 2019Accepted
Volume: 198
Page Range: pp. 3969-3990
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-019-02214-9
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Synthese. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/[insert DOI]”.
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