The early ontogeny of infants' imitation of on screen humans and robots.
Child-robot interaction
Imitation
Robot deficit
Video deficit
Journal
Infant behavior & development
ISSN: 1934-8800
Titre abrégé: Infant Behav Dev
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 7806016
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
08 2021
08 2021
Historique:
received:
04
08
2020
revised:
17
06
2021
accepted:
16
07
2021
pubmed:
2
8
2021
medline:
2
10
2021
entrez:
1
8
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Traditionally, infants have learned how to interact with objects in their environment through direct observations of adults and peers. In recent decades these models have been available over different media, and this has introduced non-human agents to infants' learning environments. Humanoid robots are increasingly portrayed as social agents in on screen, but the degree to which infants are capable of observational learning from screen-based robots is unknown. The current study thus investigated how well 1- to 3-year-olds (N = 230) could imitate on-screen robots relative to on-screen and live humans. Participants exhibited an imitation deficit for robots that varied with age. Furthermore, the well-known video deficit did not replicate as expected, and was weak and transient relative to past research. Together, the findings documented here suggest that infants are learning from media in ways that differ from past generations, but that this new learning is nuanced when novel technologies are involved.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34333263
pii: S0163-6383(21)00088-6
doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101614
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
101614Informations de copyright
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