The planning and execution of natural sequential actions in the preschool years

•In unfamiliar tasks, children frequently imitate actions that are irrelevant to achieve goals.•Over-imitation was investigated using a familiar sequential action.•A decrease of over-imitation behaviour was observed from 3 to 5years of age.•Learning about event sequences depends on representing obse...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Cognition 2015-11, Vol.144, p.58-66
Hauptverfasser:	Freier, Livia, Cooper, Richard P., Mareschal, Denis
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Action development Action perception Action planning Child Development - physiology Child, Preschool Cues Female Goal-directed actions Goals Humans Imitative Behavior - physiology Learning - physiology Male Over-imitation Psychomotor Performance - physiology
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