Action value calculations in social context from infancy

摘要

? 2022 The Author(s)Infants adaptively modulate their social behaviours, such as gaze-following, to social context. We propose that such modulations are based on infants’ social decision-making, to achieve the most valuable outcome. We propose an ‘action value calculator model’, which formulates the cognitive mechanisms underlying, and the development of, the decision-making process during interactions.