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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Dir Psychol Sci. 2009 Feb 1;18(1):53–57. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2009.01605.x

Figure 1. Goal relations detected by infants in typical human actions.

Figure 1

The depicted events illustrate experimental stimuli presented to infants in habituation and imitation experiments, as described in the text. By 5–6 months infants represent grasping events (A) as organized by the relation between agent and object. By 9–12 months, infants represent looking events (B) in this way, and they also understand actions on an intermediary (the box in C) as directed at the ultimate goal (the toy inside the box), rather than at the box itself (reprinted from A. Woodward & A. Needham (eds.) (in press). Learning and the infant mind. Oxford University Press).