Functional understanding facilitates learning about tools in human children.

Abstract:

:Human children benefit from a possibly unique set of adaptations facilitating the acquisition of knowledge about material culture. They represent artifacts (human-made objects) as tools with specific functions and seek for functional information about novel objects. Even young infants pay attention to functionally relevant features of objects, and learn tool use and infer tool functions from others' goal-directed actions and demonstrations. Children tend to imitate causally irrelevant elements of tool use demonstrations, which helps them to acquire means actions even before they fully understand their causal role in bringing about the desired goal. Although non-human animals use and make tools, and recognize causally relevant features of objects in a given task, they - unlike human children - do not appear to form enduring functional representations of tools as being for achieving particular goals when they are not in use.

journal_name

Curr Opin Neurobiol

authors

Hernik M,Csibra G

doi

10.1016/j.conb.2009.05.003

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2009-02-01 00:00:00

pages

34-8

issue

1

eissn

0959-4388

issn

1873-6882

pii

S0959-4388(09)00041-5

journal_volume

19

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