Do six-month-old infants perceive causality?
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Do six-month-old infants perceive causality?
The idea of cause and effect is often assumed to originate in prolonged learning. However, the present findings suggest that 27-week-old infants may already perceive a cause-effect relationship. Reversal of an apparently causal event (direct launching) produced more recovery of attention following habituation than the reversal of a similar but apparently non-causal event (delayed reaction). In ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognition
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/s0010-0277(87)80006-9