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...
Main Authors: | Muentener, Paul Jason, 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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Frontiers Research Foundation
2015
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/94336 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2981-8039 |
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