Is agency skin-deep? Surface attributes influence infants' sensitivity to goal-directed action

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Psychological and Sociomoral Reasoning in Infancy (2014, background): “At 7 months, infants fail at two-object tasks involving grasping if the agent wears a glove (even if they are introduced to the gloved agent prior to the testing session), most likely because they are unsure what function the glove is serving (Guajardo & Woodward, 2004).”
Action understanding as inverse planning. (2009, background): “Even young infants can apply a teleological stance to a novel entity, without being explicitly told it is appropriate, based either on the agents’ actions (Csibra et al., 1999) or its appearance (Guajardo & Woodward, 2004; Johnson, Slaughter, & Carey, 1998; Saxe, Tenenbaum, & Carey, 2005).”
Infants track action goals within and across agents. (2007, unknown): “Other studies have obtained similar results in infants ranging from 5 to 12 months of age (Guajardo & Woodward, 2004; Jovanovic et al., 2003; Kiraly, Jovanovic, Prinz, Aschersleben, & Gergely, 2003; O’Hearn & Johnson, 2002; Wellman & Phillips, 2001; Woodward, 1998, 1999; Woodward & Guajardo, 2002).”
The posterior superior temporal sulcus is sensitive to the outcome of human and non-human goal-directed actions. (2011, background): “In addition, infants under 12-months attribute goal directedness to a reaching-to-grasp motion made by a human hand, but not by an inanimate claw (Woodward, 1998) or a human hand whose surface properties are obscured by a metallic glove (Guajardo and Woodward, 2004).”