Co-dependency of exchanged behaviors is a cue for agency attribution in 10-month-olds

Abstract Goal-directed social interactions (whether instrumental or communicative) involve co-dependent, partially predictable actions of interacting agents as social goals cannot be achieved by continuously exchanging the same, perfectly predictable, or completely random behaviors. We investigated...

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Main Authors: Tibor Tauzin, György Gergely
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-09-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-97811-5