Rethinking ‘Rational Imitation’ in 14-Month-Old Infants A Perceptual Distraction Approach 英文参考文献.docVIP

Rethinking‘RationalImitation’in14-Month-OldInfants: APerceptualDistractionApproach MiriamBeisert1*,NorbertZmyj2,RomanLiepelt3,FranziskaJung4,WolfgangPrinz1,MoritzM.Daum1 1Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, 2Ruhr-Universita¨t Bochum, Bochum, Germany, 3Westfa¨lische Wilhelms University, Mu¨nster,Germany,4MaastrichtUniversity,Maastricht,TheNetherlands Abstract Intheirwidelynoticedstudy,Gergely,Bekkering,andKira′ly (2002)showedthat14-month-oldinfantsimitatedanunusual actiononlyifthemodelfreelychosetoperformthisactionandnotifthechoiceoftheactioncouldbeascribedtoexternal constraints.Theyattributedthiskindofselectiveimitationtotheinfants’capacityofunderstandingtheprincipleofrational action. In the current paper, we present evidence that a simpler approach of perceptual distraction may be more appropriatetoexplaintheirresults.Whenwemanipulatedthesaliencyofcontextstimuliinthetwooriginalconditions,the results were exactly opposite to what rational imitation predicts. Based on these findings, we reject the claim that the notionofrationalactionplaysakeyroleinselectiveimitationin14-month-olds. Citation: Beisert M, Zmyj N, Liepelt R, Jung F, Prinz W, et al. (2012) Rethinking ‘Rational Imitation’ in 14-Month-Old Infants: A Perceptual Distraction Approach.PLoSONE7(3):e32563.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0032563 Editor:PierFrancescoFerrari,Universita` diParma,Italy ReceivedOctober12,2011;AcceptedJanuary29,2012;PublishedMarch14,2012 Copyright: ? 2012 Beisert et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricteduse,distribution,andreproductioninanymedium,providedtheoriginalauthorandsourcearecredited. Funding:ThisstudywassupportedbytheMaxPlanckSociety.Noadditionalexternalfundinghasbeenreceivedforthisstudy.Thefundershadnoroleinstudy design,datacollectionandanalysis,decisiontopublish,orpreparationofthemanuscript. CompetingInterests:Theauthorshavedeclaredthatn