% pubman genre = article @article{item_1555617, title = {{Who is Doing What to Whom? Young Infants{\textquotesingle} Developing Sense of Social Causality in Animated Displays}}, author = {Rochat, P. and Striano, Tricia and Morgan, R.}, language = {eng}, doi = {10.1068/p3389}, year = {2004}, date = {2004-03}, abstract = {{In two different experiments a visual habituation/dishabituation procedure was used to test groups of 3{\textendash}10-month-old infants for their ability to discriminate the role reversal of two abstract figures (discs of different colors) chasing each other on a computer screen. Results of the first experiment point to a reliable age effect. Only 8{\textendash}10-month-old infants tended to dishabituate to a role reversal between chaser and chasee. A second experiment shows that in dishabituating to the role reversal, 8{\textendash}10-month-olds do base this discrimination on relational information between the two discs and not merely on the contrast between their respective vitality or discrete dynamic. By the age of 8{\textendash}10 months, infants demonstrate sensitivity to information specifying what one disc does to the other, at a distance. These findings point to important changes in perceptual-cognitive development and are discussed in the context of a well described key transition in social-cognitive development occurring at around 9 months of age.}}, journal = {{Perception}}, volume = {33}, number = {3}, pages = {355--369}, }