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  • Developmental psychology
  • Infant cognition
  • Motor development

Background:

  • Understanding the interplay between motor skills and perceptual development in infancy is crucial.
  • Previous research suggests early motor experiences shape cognitive abilities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between infants' motor skill development and their attention to object features during action-sound events.
  • To explore how motor proficiency influences infants' discrimination of action versus appearance changes.

Main Methods:

  • Habituation-dishabituation paradigm with 6- to 7-month-old infants (N=41).
  • Stimuli involved an object producing a sound when acted upon by a hand.
  • Testing included changes in object appearance and the action performed on the object.

Main Results:

  • Infants showed robust attention to changes in action but not appearance.
  • Higher levels of object manipulation skills in natural play correlated with longer looking times to appearance changes.
  • No significant correlation was found between motor skills and attention to action changes.

Conclusions:

  • Infants' developing motor skills may influence their attentional focus on object properties.
  • The findings suggest a dissociation between processing action and appearance information in early development.
  • Motor experience appears to enhance sensitivity to object appearance, independent of action novelty.