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Infants in Control: Prospective Motor Control and Executive Functions in Action Development
Janna M. Gottwald
- 01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: In this paper, the link between action and cognition early in development is assessed and the notion of embodied cognition is investigated by tying together two levels of action control in the conte...
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Abstract: This thesis assesses the link between action and cognition early in development. Thus the notion of an embodied cognition is investigated by tying together two levels of action control in the conte ...
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Infants prospectively control reaching based on the difficulty of future actions: To what extent can infants' multiple-step actions be explained by Fitts' law?
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TL;DR: 14-month-olds can plan their future actions and prospectively control their related movements with respect to future task difficulties, and this study investigates whether 14- months-old can prospectivelyControl their reaching actions based on the difficulty of the subsequent action.
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