PSYC 302 Lecture Notes - Broccoli, Biological Motion
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All things we attribute to people and not to objects like a chair. Anything with a face is seen as an agent. Things that do not follow the rules of object-ness: not ruled by the laws of physics. Point light tests: you can tell it is human, tell what animal it is, attribute emotions to them. Very impoverished information about a person moving and people are still able to infer personal attributes. Newborns prefer to look at the right side up hen motion showing that preference for biological motion is innate. Agents see things; do babies understand that agents are capable of perceiving and if they do, they should look to see where the agent is looking. If babies know that you need to see it in order for there to be something there babies should distinguish between eyes open head turning and eyes closed head turning. 9 mo olds aren"t yet distinguishing between closed and open eyed head turns.
