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Direct linkCook, Claire; Goodman, Noah D.; Schulz, Laura E. – Cognition, 2011
Probabilistic models of expected information gain require integrating prior knowledge about causal hypotheses with knowledge about possible actions that might generate data relevant to those hypotheses. Here we looked at whether preschoolers (mean: 54 months) recognize "action possibilities" (affordances) in the environment that allow them to…
Descriptors: Evidence, Play, Prior Learning, Hypothesis Testing
