Developmental and computational perspectives on infant social cognition
Adults effortlessly and automatically infer complex pat- terns of goals, beliefs, and other mental states as the causes of others’ actions. Yet before the last decade little was known about the developmental origins of these abilities in early infancy. Our understanding of inf...
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Cognitive Science Society
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112787 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7870-4487 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1722-2382 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1925-2035 |
| Summary: | Adults effortlessly and automatically infer complex pat-
terns of goals, beliefs, and other mental states as the causes
of others’ actions. Yet before the last decade little was known
about the developmental origins of these abilities in early
infancy. Our understanding of infant social cognition has
now improved dramatically: even preverbal infants appear
to perceive goals, preferences (Kushnir, Xu, & Wellman, in
press), and even beliefs from sparse observations of inten-
tional agents’ behavior. Furthermore, they use these infer-
ences to predict others’ behavior in novel contexts and to
make social evaluations (Hamlin, Wynn, & Bloom, 2007). Keywords:
Social cognition; Cognitive Development;
Computational Modeling; Theory of Mind |
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