Attending to what matters: flexibility in adults' and infants' action perception.

ABSTRACT: Action perception is selective in that observers attend to and encode certain dimensions of action over others. But how flexible is action perception in its selection of perceptual information? One possibility is that observers consistently attend to particular dimensions of action over others across different contexts. Another possibility, tested here, is that observers flexibly vary their attention to different dimensions of action based on the context in which action occurs. We investigated 9.5-month-old infants' and adults' ability to attend to drop height under varying contexts-aiming to drop an object into a narrow container versus a wide container. We predicted differential attention to increases in aiming height for the narrow container versus the wide container because an increase

SUBMITTER: Loucks J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3911791 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature