Mind the Gap: Investigating Toddlers’ Sensitivity to Contact Relations in Predictive Events
Toddlers readily learn predictive relations between events (e.g., that event A predicts event B). However, they intervene on A to try to cause B only in a few contexts: When a dispositional agent initiates the event or when the event is described with causal language. The current studies look at whe...
Main Authors: | Muentener, Paul Jason, Bonawitz, Elizabeth, Horowitz, Alexandra, Schulz, Laura E. |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences |
Format: | Article |
Language: | en_US |
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Public Library of Science
2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70927 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2981-8039 |
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