Where science starts: Spontaneous experiments in preschoolers’ exploratory play

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” (afford...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Goodman, Noah D., Cook, Claire Elizabeth, Schulz, Laura E
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106813
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2981-8039