scholarly journals Goal Attribution toward Non-Human Objects during Infancy Predicts Imaginary Companion Status during Preschool Years

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusuke Moriguchi ◽  
Yasuhiro Kanakogi ◽  
Naoya Todo ◽  
Yuko Okumura ◽  
Ikuko Shinohara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Imaginary Companion ◽  
Goal Attribution

scholarly journals Goal attribution toward non-human objects during infancy predicts imaginary companion

2015 ◽  
Vol 79 (0) ◽  
pp. 1EV-123-1EV-123
Author(s):  
Yusuke Moriguchi ◽  
Yasuhiro Kanakogi ◽  
Naoya Todo ◽  
Yuko Okumura ◽  
Ikuko Shinohara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Imaginary Companion ◽  
Goal Attribution

Activation of the Human Superior Temporal Gyrus during Observation of Goal Attribution by Intentional Objects

2004 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 1695-1705 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Schultz ◽  
Hiroshi Imamizu ◽  
Mitsuo Kawato ◽  
Chris D. Frith
Keyword(s):  
Functional Imaging ◽  
Superior Temporal Gyrus ◽  
Target Object ◽  
Directed Motion ◽  
Intentional Objects ◽  
Geometrical Shapes ◽  
Goal Attribution ◽  
Complex Goal

Previous functional imaging experiments in humans showed activation increases in the posterior superior temporal gyrus and sulcus during observation of geometrical shapes whose movements appear intentional or goal-directed. We modeled a chase scenario between two objects, in which the chasing object used different strategies to reach the target object: The chaser either followed the target's path or appeared to predict its end position. Activation in the superior temporal gyrus of human observers was greater when the chaser adopted a predict rather than a follow strategy. Attending to the chaser's strategy induced slightly greater activation in the left superior temporal gyrus than attending to the outcome of the chase. These data implicate the superior temporal gyrus in the identification of objects displaying complex goal-directed motion.

The Imaginary Companion

1969 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Humberto Nagera
Keyword(s):  
Imaginary Companion

Imaginary friend play in light of enactivism

2021 ◽  
pp. 095935432110538
Author(s):  
Zuzanna Rucińska
Keyword(s):  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Psychological Data ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Interactive Nature ◽  
Imaginary Companion ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Embodied Action

Review of psychological data of how children engage in imaginary friend play (IFP) shows that it involves a lot of explicit embodied action and interaction with surrounding people and environments. However, IFP is still seen as principally an individualistic activity, where, in addition to those interactions, the actor has to mentally represent an absent entity in imagination in order to engage in IFP. This capacity is deemed necessary because the imaginary companion is absent or not real. This article proposes a proof of concept argument that enactivism can account for complex imaginary phenomena as imaginary friend play. Enactivism proposes thinking of IFP in a fundamentally different way, as an explicitly embodied and performative act, where one does not need to mentally represent absent entities. It reconceptualizes imagination involved in IFP as strongly embodied, and proposes that play environments have present affordances for social and normative interactions that are reenacted in IFP—there is no “absence” that needs to be mentally represented first. This article argues that IFP is performed and enacted in the world without having to be represented in the mind first, which best captures the social and interactive nature of this form of play.

A child's imaginary companion: A transitional self

1985 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 272-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce R. Klein
Keyword(s):  
Imaginary Companion

Goal attribution without agency cues: the perception of ‘pure reason’ in infancy

Cognition ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gergely Csibra ◽  
György Gergely ◽  
Szilvia Bı́ró ◽  
Orsolya Koós ◽  
Margaret Brockbank
Keyword(s):  
Pure Reason ◽  
Goal Attribution

scholarly journals Cognitive mechanism and brain bases of imagination: Eidetic imagery /synesthesia/ imaginary companion and mind-wandering

2018 ◽  
Vol 82 (0) ◽  
pp. SS-094-SS-094
Author(s):  
Kazuo Matsuoka ◽  
Satoru Miyauchi ◽  
Michiko Asano ◽  
Yusuke Moriguchi ◽  
Takahiro Sekiguchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mind Wandering ◽  
Cognitive Mechanism ◽  
Imaginary Companion
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