Ten-month-old infants infer the value of goals from the costs of actions
Infants understand that people pursue goals, but how do they learn which goals people prefer? We tested whether infants solve this problem by inverting a mental model of action planning, trading off the costs of acting against the rewards actions bring. After seeing an agent attain two goals equally...
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2017
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112291 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1722-2382 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1925-2035 |