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.
講者介紹
黃啟泰副教授，目前任職於政大心理系
專長
嬰兒認知、模仿與觀察學習、心智理論發展
學歷
學士 國立臺灣大學
碩士 國立臺灣大學
博士 英國倫敦大學