"The early development of object knowledge: A study of infants’ visual anticipations during action observation"

Hunnius, S., & Bekkering, H. (2010). The early development of object knowledge: A study of infants’ visual anticipations during action observation. Developmental Psychology, 46(2), 446-454. doi:10.1037/a0016543
     While researching development, I found an article entitled “The Early Development of Object Knowledge: A Study of Infants’ Visual Anticipations During Action Observation.” This article talks about infant’s visual development through observation. Over the last decade, the eye movements of infants have become important measures in infancy research. The participants in this study, infants ages 6 to 16 months, were presented with short movie clips that showed functional and nonfunctional uses of everyday objects. Researchers predicted that older infants would show a stronger knowledge about different objects than younger infants. Researchers also hypothesized that younger infants would have knowledge about everyday objects, but would not be able to be observed performing the functional actions of those objects. The study found that infants at the early age of six months knew what actions went with two different objects, a phone and a cup. The study also showed that infants had trouble when they expected an objected to go to a certain location and the object went elsewhere. For example if they expected the cup to go to the mouth and the video showed the cup going to the ear. I found this article quite interesting.