@article {4406, title = {The ability to predict actions of others from distributed cues is still developing in children}, journal = {PsyArXiv Preprints}, year = {2020}, month = {01/2020}, abstract = {

Adults use distributed cues in the bodies of others to predict and counter their actions. To investigate the development of this ability, adults and 6- to 8-year-old children played a competitive game with a confederate who reached toward one of two targets. Child and adult participants, who sat across from the confederate, attempted to beat the confederate to the target by touching it before the confederate did. Adults used cues distributed through the head, shoulders, and body to predict the reaching actions. Children, in contrast, used cues in the arms and torso but not in the head, face or shoulders to predict the actions. These results provide evidence for a qualitative change in the ability to respond rapidly to predictive cues to others{\textquoteright} actions develops slowly over childhood. Despite children{\textquoteright}s sensitivity to eye gaze even in infancy, cues from the head and body do not influence their action predictions as late as 8 years of age.

}, keywords = {Action prediction, action understanding, Biological motion, development, Social interaction}, doi = {10.31234/osf.io/pu3tf}, author = {Daniel Kim and Emalie McMahon and Samuel Mehr and Ken Nakayama and Elizabeth S Spelke and Maryam Vaziri-Pashkam} } @article {3905, title = {Cortex Is Cortex: Ubiquitous Principles Drive Face-Domain Development}, journal = {Trends in Cognitive Sciences}, year = {2018}, month = {11/2018}, abstract = {

Powell, Kosakowski, and Saxe [1] argued in a recent review that two bottom-up models previously proposed to account for the development of face domains in inferotemporal cortex (IT) 2, 3 are insufficient to explain the existing data. They proposed instead that face domains are predisposed to process faces via selective connectivity to social information in medial prefrontal cortex. Here we explain why activity-dependent mechanisms acting on a retinotopic proto-architecture provide a sufficient explanation for the development of face, and other category, domains...

}, keywords = {development, face domains, self-organizing systems}, issn = {13646613}, doi = {10.1016/j.tics.2018.10.009}, url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1364661318302572}, author = {Margaret S Livingstone and Michael J Arcaro and Peter F Schade} }