Search for dissertations about: "Gustaf Gredebäck"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 swedish dissertations containing the words Gustaf Gredebäck.
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1. Infants’ Knowledge of Occluded Objects: Evidence of Early Spatiotemporal Representations
Abstract : This thesis demonstrates that infants represent temporarily non-visible, or occluded, objects. From 4 months of age, infants could accurately predict the reappearance of a moving object after 660 ms of non visibility; indicating accurate spatiotemporal representations. READ MORE
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2. Gaze Following in Infancy : Mechanisms and Developmental Context
Abstract : Few things are as fundamental to humans as the ability to share attention. It allows us to coordinate our actions with, and assimilate knowledge from, the actions of others with remarkable efficiency and accuracy. This ability emerges in infancy and sets the stage for all subsequent social development. READ MORE
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3. How hands shape the mind : The P400 as an index of manual actions and gesture perception
Abstract : Being able to perform and understand actions is crucial for proper functioning in the social world. From birth, we use our bodies to act and to promote learning about ourselves, our environment and other people’s actions and intentions. Our mind is embodied; thus, our actions play a crucial role in cognitive and social development. READ MORE
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4. An Embodied Account of Action Prediction
Abstract : Being able to generate predictions about what is going to happen next while observing other people’s actions plays a crucial role in our daily lives. Different theoretical explanations for the underlying processes of humans’ action prediction abilities have been suggested. READ MORE
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5. Social causality in motion : Visual bias and categorization of social interactions during the observation of chasing in infancy
Abstract : Since the seminal work of Fritz Heider and Marienne Simmel (1944) the study of animacy perception, or the perception and attribution of life from the motion of simple geometrical shapes has intrigued researchers. The intrigue for psychologists and vision scientists then and today centered on the stark disconnect between the simplicity of the visual input and the universal richness of the resulting percept. READ MORE