Adults, but not preschoolers or toddlers integrate situational constraints in their action anticipations: a developmental study on the flexibility of anticipatory gaze.
Action anticipation
Eye-tracking
Predictive coding
Situational constraints
Journal
Cognitive processing
ISSN: 1612-4790
Titre abrégé: Cogn Process
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 101177984
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2021
Aug 2021
Historique:
received:
21
12
2019
accepted:
16
01
2021
pubmed:
26
3
2021
medline:
4
8
2021
entrez:
25
3
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Recent theories stress the role of situational information in understanding others' behaviour. For example, the predictive coding framework assumes that people take contextual information into account when anticipating other's actions. Likewise, the teleological stance theory assumes an early developing ability to consider situational constraints in action prediction. The current study investigates, over a wide age range, whether humans flexibly integrate situational constraints in their action anticipations. By means of an eye-tracking experiment, 2-year-olds, 5-year-olds, younger and older adults (together N = 181) observed an agent repeatedly taking one of two paths to reach a goal. Then, this path became blocked, and for test trials only the other path was passable. Results demonstrated that in test trials younger and older adults anticipated that the agent would take the continuous path, indicating that they took the situational constraints into account. In contrast, 2- and 5-year-olds anticipated that the agent would take the blocked path, indicating that they still relied on the agent's previous observed behaviour and-contrary to claims by the teleological stance theory-did not take the situational constraints into account. The results highlight developmental changes in human's ability to include situational constraints in their visual anticipations. Overall, the study contributes to theories on predictive coding and the development of action understanding.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33763791
doi: 10.1007/s10339-021-01015-8
pii: 10.1007/s10339-021-01015-8
pmc: PMC8324589
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
515-528Subventions
Organisme : Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
ID : PA 2302/6-1
Organisme : Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
ID : KI FI 1424/2-1
Informations de copyright
© 2021. The Author(s).
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