The role of action prediction and inhibitory control for joint action coordination in toddlers

Meyer, Marlene; Bekkering, Harold; Haartsen, Rianne; Stapel, Janny C.; Hunnius, Sabine

doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2015.06.005

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“…Indeed, another study with 2.5‐year‐olds found that individual differences in the ability to predict others’ actions in an eye‐tracking task were directly related to individual differences in the ability to adapt to a social partner and carry out joint actions in a turn‐taking task (Meyer, Bekkering, Haartsen, Stapel, & Hunnius, ). Being able to predict upcoming actions makes interactions run more smoothly and contributes to children appearing more socially competent.…”

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Finding events in a continuous world: A developmental account

Levine

Buchsbaum

Hirsh‐Pasek

et al. 2018

Developmental Psychobiology

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Event segmentation is a fundamental process of human cognition that organizes the continuous flux of activity into discrete, hierarchical units. The mechanism of event segmentation in infants seems to parallel the mechanism studied in adults, which centers on action predictability. Statistical learning appears to bootstrap infants’ event segmentation by generating action predictions without relying on prior knowledge. Infants’ first‐hand experiences with goal‐directed actions further enhance their prediction of others’ actions. Scaffolds for event segmentation are available in the input, with caregivers providing redundant cues to event boundaries through the use of motionese and acoustic packaging. Research points to the importance of developing event segmentation skills for development in other areas of cognition, including memory, social competence, and language, though more work is needed to capture the directionality of effects. Although event segmentation is a relatively new area of focus in cognition, this process illuminates how children make sense of an ever‐changing world.

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Section: Significance Of Event Segmentation For Other Developmental Pmentioning

confidence: 99%

Finding events in a continuous world: A developmental account

Levine

Buchsbaum

Hirsh‐Pasek

et al. 2018

Developmental Psychobiology

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“…Although previous studies suggest that standard event-detection algorithms are susceptible to data quality differences that may exist between individuals with and without ASD (Hessels, Niehorster, Kemner, & Hooge, 2016;Shic, Chawarska, & Scassellati, 2008), we chose to follow the same detection procedures as used in previous studies Meyer et al, 2015;Stapel et al, 2010) for the following reasons: Most importantly, while measures as fixation durations and number of fixations have been shown to be influenced by data quality, the designation of a given fixation as within an AoI should not be affected. As we use the fixations only to establish whether or not an infant looked at a certain AoI, and not as a measure of how often, or how long they looked, we would not expect potential differences in general data quality between the two groups to affect our results.…”

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“…Thus far, our knowledge about action prediction in ASD is limited to school-aged children and older individuals but little is known about its early development. Yet, the ability to form and update predictions about others' actions develops already early in infancy (Falck-Ytter et al, 2006;Hunnius & Bekkering, 2014;Meyer, Bekkering, Haartsen, Stapel, & Hunnius, 2015;Stapel, Hunnius, van Elk, & Bekkering, 2010). Multiple studies have reported that infants as young as six months show anticipatory eye movements towards observed action goals (Falck-Ytter, Gredebäck, & von Hofsten, 2006;, similar to adults (Flanagan & Johansson, 2003).…”

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“…Multiple studies have reported that infants as young as six months show anticipatory eye movements towards observed action goals (Falck-Ytter, Gredebäck, & von Hofsten, 2006;, similar to adults (Flanagan & Johansson, 2003). Further, toddlers' precision in predicting the timing of an observed action has been linked to the ability to act jointly with a partner (Meyer et al, 2015), stressing the importance of action prediction abilities for other social skills. Despite its early development and important role in social interactions, our knowledge about early action prediction in young children and infants with ASD to date is limited.…”

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Action prediction in 10-month-old infants at high and low familial risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder

Braukmann

Ward

Hessels

et al. 2018

Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders

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Background: Several studies have reported action prediction difficulties in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Although action prediction develops in infancy, little is known about prediction abilities in infants at risk for ASD. Methods: Using eye tracking, we measured action anticipations in 52 10-month-old infants at high and low familial risk for ASD. Infants were repeatedly presented with actions during which a familiar object (cup/phone) was either brought to a location usually associated with the object (cup-to-mouth/phone-to-ear; usual condition) or to an unusual location (cup-toear/phone-to-mouth; unusual condition). We assessed infants' anticipations to the actual target location (i.e., the location where the object was actually brought; the mouth in cup-tomouth/phone-to-mouth actions; the ear in cup-to-ear/phone-to-ear actions) and the alternative target location (the ear in cup-to-mouth/phone-to-mouth actions; the mouth in cup-to-ear/phone-to-ear actions). Results: Anticipation frequencies were modulated by object knowledge across all infants: We found more frequent anticipations towards the alternative target location for unusual compared to usual actions. This effect was in particular present for mouth anticipations which were also overall more frequent than ear anticipations. Across usual and unusual actions, infants showed more frequent anticipations towards the actual target location, potentially representing a learning effect elicited by the repeated action presentation. Importantly, there were no differences between the low-and high-risk infants in predictive eye movements. Conclusion: Whereas our results suggest that familial risk for ASD does not affect action prediction in infancy, future research needs to investigate whether differences are apparent in those high-risk infants who later receive a diagnosis.

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“…In other contexts, such as semantics, for example, there may well be general control processes, and more specialised control processes for social semantics, which engage ventral portions of frontoparietal cortex (see Binney & Ramsey, 2019). We are also not covering the emergence and development of social representations i.e., representational content (Meyer, Bekkering, Haartsen, Stapel, & Hunnius, 2015;Weigelt et al, 2014), or how expertise shapes such representations (Bukach, Gauthier, & Tarr, 2006;Gerson, Bekkering, & Hunnius, 2015). We speculate that learning about other people along with social concepts are also likely to involve integration between general control and input modules.…”

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RamseyWard_social_priority_mapping

Ramsey¹,

Ward²

2019

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Whether on a first-date or during a team briefing at work, our daily lives are inundated with social information and in recent years research has begun studying the neural mechanisms that support social information processing. We argue that the focus of social neuroscience research to date has been skewed towards specialised processes at the expense of general processing mechanisms with a consequence that unrealistic expectations have been set for what specialised processes alone can achieve. We propose that for social neuroscience to develop into a more mature research programme, it needs to embrace hybrid models that integrate specialised person representations with domain-general solutions, such as prioritisation and selection, which operate across all classes of information (both social and non-social). To illustrate our central arguments, we first describe then evaluate a hybrid model of information processing during social interactions that: 1) generates novel and falsifiable predictions compared to existing models; 2) is predicated on a wealth of neurobiological evidence spanning many decades, methods and species; 3) requires a superior standard of evidence to substantiate domain-specific mechanisms of social behaviour, and; 4) transforms expectations of what types of neural mechanisms may contribute to social information processing in both typical and atypical populations.

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The role of action prediction and inhibitory control for joint action coordination in toddlers

Cited by 33 publications

References 64 publications

Finding events in a continuous world: A developmental account

Finding events in a continuous world: A developmental account

Action prediction in 10-month-old infants at high and low familial risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder

RamseyWard_social_priority_mapping

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