{"pk":26045,"title":"What senses of agency can infants have?","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The ‘sense of agency’—the feeling of doing—is a phenomenological experience that cannot be taken for granted\nin infants. Researching the development of this phenomenon hinges on its conceptualization. Although it may seem natural\nto ask “When do infants have sense of agency?”, this binary view on the presence (or absence) of a sense of agency seems\nconceptually problematic. Cognitive phenomenological research reveals that sense of agency is a complex set of agentive\nexperiences with different contents (e.g. ‘the experience of acting’, ‘the experience of volition’) that are often conflated.\nGiven that different contents presuppose different representational capacities, developmental psychology may better target the\nquestion “What senses of agency can infants have at different developmental stages?” We show how this re-conceptualization\nimpacts the interpretation of existing empirical findings in infant research, and how it can improve our understanding of the\ndevelopmental trajectory of infants’ experiences of agency.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6c20f7kx","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Lorijn","middle_name":"","last_name":"Zaadnoordijk","name_suffix":"","institution":"Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute for Brain","department":""},{"first_name":"Sabine","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hunnius","name_suffix":"","institution":"Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute for Brain","department":""},{"first_name":"Marlene","middle_name":"","last_name":"Meyer","name_suffix":"","institution":"Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute for Brain","department":""},{"first_name":"Johan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kwisthout","name_suffix":"","institution":"Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute for Brain","department":""},{"first_name":"Iris","middle_name":"","last_name":"van Rooij","name_suffix":"","institution":"Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute for Brain","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26045/galley/15669/download/"}]}