Just do it? Investigating the gap between prediction and action in toddlers' causal inferences

Adults’ causal representations integrate information about predictive relations and the possibility of effective intervention; if one event reliably predicts another, adults can represent the possibility that acting to bring about the first event might generate the second. Here we show that although...

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Main Authors: Bonawitz, Elizabeth, Saxe, Rebecca R., Gopnik, Alison, Meltzoff, Andrew N., Woodward, James, Schulz, Laura E., Ferranti, Darlene
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70036
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2377-1791
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2981-8039