Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada H4B 1R6.
Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada H4B 1R6.
Infant Behav Dev. 2014 Feb;37(1):119-29. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2013.12.005. Epub 2014 Jan 31.
The goal of the present research was to examine whether infants associate different paths of motion with animate beings and inanimate objects. An infant-controlled habituation procedure was used to examine 10-20-month-old infants' ability to associate a non-linear motion path (jumping) with animals and a linear (rebounding) motion path with vehicles (Experiment 1) and furniture (Experiment 2). During the habituation phase, infants saw a dog jumping over a barrier and either a vehicle or a piece of furniture rebounding off the barrier. In the test phase, infants looked longer when another inanimate object jumped rather than rebounded, but showed no such differential looking in the case of another animate object. The ability to restrict the animate motion path of jumping to animate beings was present by 10 months of age. The present findings support the hypothesis that motion path is associated with the animate-inanimate distinction early in infancy.
本研究的目的是检验婴儿是否将不同的运动路径与有生命的和无生命的物体联系起来。采用婴儿控制的习惯化程序，检验了 10-20 个月大的婴儿将非线性运动路径（跳跃）与动物以及线性（反弹）运动路径与车辆（实验 1）和家具（实验 2）联系起来的能力。在习惯化阶段，婴儿看到一只狗跳过一个障碍物，然后看到一个车辆或一块家具从障碍物上反弹。在测试阶段，当另一个无生命的物体跳跃而不是反弹时，婴儿会看的时间更长，但在另一个有生命的物体的情况下，他们没有表现出这种不同的注视。到 10 个月大时，婴儿已经能够将有生命的跳跃运动路径限制在有生命的物体上。本研究结果支持这样一种假设，即运动路径与婴儿期早期的有生命和无生命的区别有关。
