Now I see it but you don't: 14-month-olds can represent another person's visual perspective.
Twelve- and 14-month-old infants' ability to represent another person's visual perspective (Level-1 visual perspective taking) was studied in a looking-time paradigm. Fourteen-month-olds looked longer at a person reaching for and grasping a new object when the old goal-object was visible than when it was invisible to the person (but visible to the infant). These findings are consistent with the interpretation that infants 'rationalized' the person's reach for a new object when the old goal-object was out of sight. Twelve-month-olds did not distinguish between test conditions. The present findings are consistent with recent research on infants' developing understanding of seeing.
Sodian
Beate
B
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany. sodian@edupsy.uni-muenchen.de
Thoermer
Claudia
C
Metz
Ulrike
U
D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002657:Child Development; D003210:Concept Formation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D012938:Social Perception; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*