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  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Embodied Cognition

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  • Action understanding in children progresses from associative learning to mentalizing.
  • Embodied cognition research highlights the role of interoception in action observation and understanding.
  • Existing models lack a developmental perspective on interoception's influence on children's action understanding.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel developmental model of how interoception influences children's action understanding across different ages.
  • To explore the role of interoceptive processing and feedback in early action learning.
  • To examine how interoception supports the development of inferring action intentions and mentalizing.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing literature on interoception, action understanding, and child development.
  • Analysis of developmental stages from infancy to early childhood.
  • Discussion of neural mechanisms underlying interoception and action understanding.

Main Results:

  • In early infancy, action understanding relies on basic interoceptive information from caregiver interactions.
  • Interoception provides internal reference for mental representations and imitation, even without visual feedback.
  • By early childhood, enhanced interoception aids information integration, crucial for inferring intentions and mentalizing.

Conclusions:

  • Interoception plays a multilevel and stage-dependent role in the developmental trajectory of children's action understanding.
  • The proposed model integrates interoception's contribution from early automatic processing to later complex mentalizing.
  • Further research into neural mechanisms can elucidate interoception's impact on cognitive development.