Nature Neuroscience 9, 878 - 879 (2006)
Published online: 18 June 2006; | doi:10.1038/nn1729
Infants predict other people's action goalsTerje Falck-Ytter, Gustaf Gredebäck
& Claes von Hofsten
Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Box 1225, 751 42 Uppsala, Sweden.
Correspondence should be addressed to Terje Falck-Ytter terje.falck-ytter@psyk.uu.se Do infants come to understand other people's actions through a mirror neuron system that maps an observed action onto motor representations of that action? We demonstrate that a specialized system for action perception guides proactive goal-directed eye movements in 12-month-old but not in 6-month-old infants, providing direct support for this view. The activation of this system requires observing an interaction between the hand of the agent and an object.
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