A classic study on this
Infants selectively encode the goal object of an actor's reach
Amanda L. Woodward · 1998 · Cognition
- Children
- Not given in the summary we read
- Where
- Not given in the summary we read
- Ages
- 5 to 9 months
- How
- Researchers measured how long babies looked at different scenes
- What it found
- Babies of 6 and 9 months treated a reaching hand as aiming for a particular toy, with weaker signs at 5 months.
- Limits
- We have only read the summary.