Humans show a strong and early inclination to interpret observed behaviours of others as
goal-directed actions. We identify two main epistemic functions that this 'teleological …

The ability to transfer learning across contexts is an adaptive skill that develops rapidly
during early childhood. Learning from television is a specific instance of transfer of learning …

The sense of agency (SoA) is defined as “the registration that I am the initiator of my actions.”
Both “direct” and “indirect” measurement of SoA has focused on specific contextualized …

The concept of affordances appeared in psychology during the late 60s as an alternative
perspective on the visual perception of the environment. It was revolutionary in the intuition …

This article discusses four different scenarios to specify increasingly complex mechanisms
that enable increasingly flexible social interactions. The key dimension on which these …

According to the two-stage model of voluntary action, the ability to perform voluntary action is
acquired in two sequential steps. Firstly, associations are acquired between representations …

The immediate experience of self-agency, that is, the experience of generating and
controlling our actions, is thought to be a key aspect of selfhood. It has been suggested that …

We contrast two positions concerning the initial domain of actions that infants interpret as
goal-directed. The 'narrow scope'view holds that goal-attribution in 6-and 9-month-olds is …

From early in life, infants watch other people's actions. How do young infants come to make
sense of actions they observe? Here, we review empirical findings on the development of …

This paper reviews studies on infants' imitation of goal-directed actions in the first two years
of life. Special emphasis is given to the role of the two observable components of an action …