Artificial intelligence detects awareness of functional relation with the environment in 3 month old babies.

A recent experiment probed how purposeful action emerges in early life by manipulating infants' functional connection to an object in the environment (i.e., tethering an infant's foot to a colorful mobile).

Meaning from movement and stillness: Signatures of coordination dynamics reveal infant agency.

How do human beings make sense of their relation to the world and realize their ability to effect change? Applying modern concepts and methods of coordination dynamics, we demonstrate that patterns of movement and coordination in 3 to 4-mo-olds may be used to identify states and behavioral phenotypes of emergent agency. By means of a complete coordinative analysis of baby and mobile motion and their interaction, we show that the emergence of agency can take the form of a punctuated self-organizing process, with meaning found both in movement and stillness.

2D Capsule Networks Detect Perceived Changes in Infant∼Environment Relationship Reflected in 3D Movement Dynamics.

Can infant exploration and causal discovery be detected using Artificial Intelligence (AI)? A recent experiment probed how purposeful action emerges in early life by manipulating infants' functional connection to an object in the environment (., tethering one foot to a colorful mobile). Vicon motion capture data from multiple infant joints were used here to create Histograms of Joint Displacements (HJDs) to generate pose-based descriptors for 3D infant spatial trajectories.