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An associative learning account of how infants learn about causal action in animates and inanimates: A critical re-examination of 4 classic studies

2024-07-25

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<p>Considerable research shows that causal perception emerges between 6 and 10 months of age. Yet, because this research tends to use artificial stimuli, it is unanswered how or by what mechanisms of change human infants learn about the causal properties of real-world categories such as animate entities and inanimate objects. One answer to this question is that this knowledge is innate (i.e., unlearned, evolutiona...

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