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Direct linkMinju Kim; Adena Schachner – Developmental Science, 2025
Listening to music activates representations of movement and social agents. Why? We test whether causal reasoning plays a role, and find that from childhood, people can intuitively reason about how musical sounds were generated, inferring the events and agents that caused the sounds. In Experiment 1 (N = 120, pre-registered), 6-year-old children…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Abstract Reasoning, Thinking Skills, Music
Peer reviewedPillow, Bradford H.; Hill, Valerie; Boyce, April; Stein, Catherine – Developmental Psychology, 2000
Three experiments investigated children's understanding of inference as a knowledge source. Most 4- to 6-year-olds did not rate a puppet as more certain of a toy's color after the puppet looked at the toy or inferred its color than they did after the puppet guessed the color. Most 8- and 9-year-olds distinguished inference and looking from…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, Deduction
