"The Block Makes It Go": Causal Language Helps Toddlers Integrate Prediction, Action, and Expectations about Contact Relations

Some researchers have suggested that correlation information and information about action are bound in a single representation: “causal knowledge”. If children have only observed correlation information, do they spontaneously try to generate the effect? Do they represent the relationship as pote...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bonawitz, Elizabeth, Horowitz, Alexandra, Ferranti, Darlene, Schulz, Laura E.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Cognitive Science Society (U.S.) 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76762
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2981-8039