Abstract
In uncertain situations such as descending challenging slopes, social signals from caregivers can provide infants with important information for guiding action. Previous work showed that 18-month-old walking infants use social information selectively, only when risk of falling is uncertain. Experiment 1 was designed to alter infants' region of uncertainty for walking down slopes. Slippery Teflon-soled shoes drastically impaired 18-month-olds' ability to walk down slopes compared with walking barefoot or in standard crepe-soled shoes, shifting the region of uncertainty to a shallower range of slopes. In Experiment 2, infants wore Teflon-soled shoes while walking down slopes as their mothers encouraged and discouraged them from walking. Infants relied on social information on shallow slopes, even at 0≥, where the probability of walking successfully was uncertain in the Teflon-soled shoes. Findings indicate that infants' use of social information is dynamically attuned to situational factors and the state of their current abilities.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1033-1042 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Neural Networks |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 8-9 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 2010 |
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Keywords
- Communication
- Infant locomotion
- Perceptual exploration
- Social cognition
- Walking
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cognitive Neuroscience
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Using social information to guide action : Infants' locomotion over slippery slopes. / Adolph, Karen E.; Karasik, Lana B.; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.
In: Neural Networks, Vol. 23, No. 8-9, 10.2010, p. 1033-1042.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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