Toddlers infer unobserved causes for spontaneous events

Previous research suggests that children infer the presence of unobserved causes when objects appear to move spontaneously. Are such inferences limited to motion events or do children assume that unexplained physical events have causes more generally? Here we introduce an apparently spontaneous even...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Muentener, Paul Jason, Schulz, Laura E.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Frontiers Research Foundation 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/94336
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2981-8039