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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Main Authors: Liu, Shari, Spelke, Elizabeth S., Ullman, Tomer David, Tenenbaum, Joshua B
Other Authors: McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112291
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1722-2382
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1925-2035