title: Re-enactment of intended acts from a video presentation by 18- and 24-month-old children.
abstract: We used the Re-enactment of intention paradigm to investigate whether children would re-enact what an adult intended to do in a video presentation as they do when presented with a live demonstration (Meltzoff in Dev Psychol 31(5):838-850, 1995). Unlike the 18-month-old infants studied by Meltzoff (Dev Psychol 31(5):838-850, 1995), the 18- and 24-month-olds in the current study did not frequently imitate unsuccessful goal-directed actions presented in a video model. Children who performed better in the task also tended to share more of their attention with the experimenter during co-viewing of the video. Performance on the Re-enactment of intention task was positively related to categorization score, an independent measure of cognitive functioning.
authors.affiliation: Sapienza University, Rome, Italy. francesca.bellagamba@uniroma1.it
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bellagamba
authors.forename: Fiorenzo
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Laghi
authors.forename: Antonia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lonigro
authors.forename: Cecilia Serena
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Pace
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D032882:Comprehension; D003210:Concept Formation; D005260:Female; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D007100:Imitative Behavior; D007223:Infant; D033182:Intention; D008297:Male; D012938:Social Perception; D056345:Theory of Mind