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Direct linkSaxe, Rebecca; Tzelnic, Tania; Carey, Susan – Developmental Psychology, 2007
Preverbal infants can represent the causal structure of events, including distinguishing the agentive and receptive roles and categorizing entities according to stable causal dispositions. This study investigated how infants combine these 2 kinds of causal inference. In Experiments 1 and 2, 9.5-month-olds used the position of a human hand or a…
Descriptors: Toys, Motion, Infant Behavior, Concept Formation
