台大心理系

Imitation is thought to be a foundation for social cognitive abilities such as action understanding, empathy, and theory of mind. However, the cognitive mechanisms underlying imitation have been a topic of considerable debate. Awareness of the complex, diverse nature of imitation has begun to filter into developmental research.Recent research has attempted to dissect children’s observational learning of actions on objects by degrading specific source information about an action. This talk will present some of my recent works capitalizing on end-state and ghost displays. These studies address the issue of whether infants coordinate their understanding of object affordances and their insight about agency in the service of discovering which aspects of information observed in conditions, are ones to imitate.