Belief-based action prediction in preverbal infants

By Victoria Southgate, A. Vernetti. 2014

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Highlights • 6-month-olds consider others’ mental states when predicting their actions.• We use sensorimotor alpha suppression as a neural correlate of action prediction.• Infants predict an action only when the person’s belief should lead them to act.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

Neural Theory-of-Mind? On the Limits of Social Intelligence in Large LMs (2022, background): “On the other hand, some argue that language develops after TOM since preverbal infants already could possess some level of TOM-like abilities (Onishi and Baillargeon, 2005; Southgate and Vernetti, 2014; Poulin-Dubois and Yott, 2018).”
How (not) to measure infant Theory of Mind: Testing the replicability and validity of four non-verbal measures (2018, methodology): “First trial analyses To replicate the result by Southgate et al. (2010) we conducted a between-subject analyses and analyzed the first trial.”
How Preschoolers Use Cues of Dominance to Make Sense of Their Social Environment (2015, background): “A recent study suggests that 6-months-old infants generate action predictions on the basis of other agents’ beliefs (Southgate & Vernetti, 2014).”