Attunement and Affordance Learning in Infants

• Published in: Journal of cognition and development Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 534 - 554
• Main Authors: De Bordes, Pieter F., Hasselman, Fred, Cox, Ralf F. A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia Psychology Press 08.08.2019; Routledge; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Affordances; Attention; Behavior Patterns; Cues; Eye Movements; Foreign Countries; Infant Behavior; Infants; Interpersonal Relationship; Learning Processes; Observation; Perceptual Development; Physical Environment; Scoring; Social discrimination learning; Spatial Ability; Young Children; Netherlands

From a perceptual learning perspective, infants use social information (like gaze direction) in a similar way as other information in our physical environment (like object movements) to specify action possibilities. In the current study, we assumed that infants are able to learn an affordance upon o...